We've been having a fire on the Organ Mountains the past few days. It started on the East side from White Sands Missile Range doing some tests. An Abrams tank fired off a live round and started a fire. It's been working its way up the east side the past few days. The winds here have been 30+ miles per hour the last few days so there was little they could do to put it out. The fire reached the peak yesterday as far as I can tell since that's when I started seeing it. Luckily today has been very calm so we've seen lots of big fire fighting helicopters going back and forth with loads of water. So far about 8000 acres have burned.





The photos above are from the Las Cruces Sun News.



A view from work. It helps to enlarge it to see all the smoke.