Gearing up for potentially ‘big’ fire season
COVID-19 wasn’t the only thing that made 2020 such a horrific year. It was also a historically bad year for wildfires across the United States, to put it mildly. States such as California and Colorado saw extreme wildfires that lasted for weeks, turning the sky orange in some of the nation’s largest cities. In New Mexico, lightning strikes caused a large, out-of-season fire in the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF), later named the Medio Fire, which burned more than 4,000 acres.