San Juan County Fire & Rescue

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s!
Hot air balloons!

One of the most fun things we do every year is help out with the City of Bloomfield, NM San Juan River Balloon Rally!!

And there is more balloon fun to be had:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HAW9omcGj/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Camp Fuego 2026 is in the books!

We were honored to welcome the third class of Camp Fuego this summer and teach some young women in our community a bit about the fire service, and certify them with First Aid/and CPR.

They even got some time in the training tower and on the nozzle end of the hose battling a car fire!!

We are so proud of these Fuego campers and want to say a big thank you to the folks from other agencies and SJCFR who participated in the camp!

Mark your calendar for next June- Camp Fuego is open to young women, age 16-18.

Red Flag warning today- but no burning anyway.

Not the first and won’t be the last for this year…

Red Flag Warning in effect after noon Tuesday.

From the US National Weather Service Albuquerque New Mexico:

RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT MONDAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU... ... .Strong southwest winds with low humidity, hot temperatures, and deep mixing will increase the risk for rapid fire spread over far west central New Mexico, including Gallup, Monday before expanding to much of northwest and west-central NM Tuesday. Any dry lightning strikes that occur over west central New Mexico Monday may result in fire starts that rapidly spread Tuesday.

NMZ101-080900-
/O.UPG.KABQ.FW.A.0038.260609T1800Z-260610T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0043.260609T1800Z-260610T0300Z/
Northwest Plateau-
1208 PM MDT Sun Jun 7 2026
..RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY...

The National Weather Service in Albuquerque NM has issued a Red Flag
Warning in effect from noon to 9 PM MDT Tuesday.

* AFFECTED AREA...Northwest Plateau (Zone 101).

* TIMING...From noon to 9 PM MDT Tuesday.

* 20 FOOT WINDS...Southwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40
mph.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Relative Humidity between 5 to 13 percent.

* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor
burning is not recommended.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of
this Red Flag Warning.

From the “sometimes something gets somewhere it shouldn’t and now we don’t know how to get it out” file…

C Shift had an instance of a cat stuck in a pipe last night.
No, that’s not a punch line.

Why didn’t the cat get out since it got in there?
Better question is: “How did the cat get in there!?”

We asked. The cat wouldn’t tell us.

After some cutting, the cat was freed and has found a new home with a firefighter.

And now we are taking name suggestions!
What do you think about:

Blaze
Chief David Vega Junior
Hurst (That’s the brand name of the jaws of life tool we use)
Ladder
Halligan (that’s a tool we use)
Pulaski (also a tool)
Spot
Catty McCatFace
Tony
Smokey
Sticky (cause it was stuck)

Or suggest your own name in the comments!