| Indios Fire Daily Update 06/11/2024NM Fire Information

Daily update – Tuesday June 11, 2024

Acres: 11,500

Start date: May 19, 2024

Location: 7 miles north of the village of Coyote, New Mexico

Staff: 186

Completion: 86%

Fuels: Frame

Strong points: Northern New Mexico Incident Management Team 3, led by Incident Commander Luke McLarty, assumed command of the Indios Fire on Monday, June 10, from Incident Management Team 4 of the southwest area. The Northern New Mexico team is made up of members from the Santa Fe National Forest and surrounding areas. They contained the fire for the first few days of the incident before moving to SWIMT 4. The Type 3 team will now complete suppression repair work, clean and cool interior hot spots, and assess the Continental Divide Trail to determine the next steps to reopen it.

As a result of successful firefighting efforts, 86% of objectives have been met, and many resources are either demobilized to return to their original units or reassigned to assist other wildfires across the country. Due to decreased fire activity, written updates will now be provided every other day.

Operations: Today, forestry staff will conduct a reconnaissance of the Continental Divide Trail from top to bottom of the closed portion to determine what is needed to safely reopen it to hikers. Hydrologists will assess the burned area to decide what repair and rehabilitation work may be needed to protect the watershed.

The percentage of completion (containment, point protection and monitoring objectives) and containment (where the fire can reasonably be expected to stop spreading) remains at 86%, and no No further fire growth is expected. The remaining 14% is not officially reported as contained because no control measures are in place at the north end of the fire due to the steep, inaccessible terrain in the Chama River Canyon Wilderness. Fire managers expect little to no fire spread in this area due to limited vegetation and rocky terrain. Large logs and stumps continue to smolder in some areas, but most of the lighter fuels have been consumed indoors.

Fire department personnel, including firefighters, heavy equipment operators and forestry personnel, continue repair work. This includes repairing roads and fire lines, installing water bars, seeding disturbed areas, chipping and felling hazard trees (puppies) along roads and roads. trails.

Weather report: Today the sky will clear and temperatures will rise. A spot shower or thunderstorm moving southeast from the Tusas Mountains, north of the burn location, is unlikely to directly hit the burned area, but gusty outflow winds could impact the area in the afternoon and early evening.

Smoke: Minimal smoke impacts are expected for the foreseeable future. Lightly dispersed visible smoke will diminish over time. Smoke detectors have been installed and will remain in the communities of Coyote, Gallina, Cañones and at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. View an interactive smoke map at To learn more about the impacts of smoke at

Closures: A Santa Fe National Forest emergency area closure is in place for the Indios Fire. The complete closure order (n° 03-10-01-24-04) and the plan are available on Inciweb. Scope changes to the closure order were made on Monday June 10. Camping and water are available at the Coyote Ranger Station for Continental Divide Trail hikers affected by this closure.

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