Week ending Friday, October 15, 2021

A Very Close Call

A Canadian woman says she is lucky to be alive after a meteor crashed through her roof and wound up on a pillow next to her head. Ruth Hamilton of Golden, British Columbia, said she was sound asleep the night of Oct. 4 when a loud crash and the feeling of debris falling on her face caused her to leap from her bed. A large stone and smaller bits were scattered on her bed. “Everything about the story was consistent with a meteorite fall, and the fact that this bright fireball had occurred basically right at the same time made it a pretty overwhelming case,” astronomer Peter Brown said.

Earthquakes

A magnitude 6.1 quake after...

Fire managers on the Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands may implement a Copperton prescribed fire on the Mount Taylor Ranger District.

The Copperton prescribed fire is part of the Redondo RX project. Crews are looking to burn the following units in the project: 1,907 acres on the Copperton unit three miles west of Post Office Flats in the Zuni Mountains. The Cibola NF & NGs manages all prescribed fires in compliance with New Mexico state regulations on air quality and smoke management.

The decision to proceed depends on multiple factors, including resource availability, fuel moisture levels, air quality and forecast weather. Prescribed burns are designed to meet specific...

New Mexico is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by enacting Crisis Standards of Care for the state health care system.

“Today (Oct. 18), the state is offering clarity and support as providers seek to make difficult choices about how to allocate scarce – and precious – health care resources,” Dr. David Scrase said. The acting secretary for the New Mexico Department of Health continued. “The goals, as always, remain the same: to save as many New Mexican lives as possible, and to help sustain the health care providers who have sustained our communities throughout the entire pandemic.”

This means some of the state’s hospitals and providers will employ a standardized and...

Choices from the Chamber of Commerce to the Navajo Nation under consideration

The New Mexico Redistricting Committee is moving toward final choices for voting districts in N.M.

Early this year the N.M. State Legislature passed a Redistricting Act which, according to the Redistricting website, “empowers the committee to develop district maps that allow New Mexico voters to choose their elected representatives, not the other way around.”

The stated purpose of the committee is to perform the ten-year district realignment for the U. S. House of Representatives, the New Mexico Senate, the New Mexico House of Representatives, and the New Mexico Public Education Commission. At least three...