The U.S. Forest Service said it started another New Mexico wildfire in 2022, bringing to three the number of blazes it sparked in the drought-hit state last year, including the largest in the contiguous United States.
The Cerro Pelado Fire began in April 2022 near Los Alamos when strong winds stoked a pile of burning logs and branches left from a controlled burn meant to lower wildfire risk, the U.S. Forest Service said in a recent report following a more-than-yearlong investigation.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said the Forest Service had to abandon its "business-as-usual" approach to prescribed burns while climate change and extreme drought plagued the region. The agency blamed the Cerro Pelado Fire on strong winds and tinder-dry forests, as it did with two other blazes it started in April 2022. The other two merged into the largest wildfire in state history known as the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire.
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