EMNRD-FORESTRY DIVISION

Below is the content of the ABQ Zone Incident Management Team's news release about the Dog Head Fire for today, Monday, 6.27.16.

REHABILITATION NEARING COMPLETION
DOG HEAD FIRE UPDATE - 6/27/2016, 8:00 A.M.
Acres: 17,912
Containment: 90%
Cause: Human - under investigation
Start Date: June 14, 2016
Jurisdiction: Cibola National Forest, NM State Forestry, Southern Pueblo Agency/BIA, BLM
Location: 6 miles NW of Tajique, NM
Vegetation: Heavy fuels, dead and down timber, ponderosa pine stands
Damage Assessment: 12 single residences and 44 other minor structures
Total Personnel: 266

Rehabilitation has been completed on the north and west side of the fire perimeter. Firefighters will continue to patrol the west perimeter. The majority of the work remains on the east side of the fire perimeter where the excavators are working on rehabilitate dozer line.

With the majority of the work done on the hand line rehabilitation, crews will begin the demobilization process today. Crews remaining will continue mop-up and rehabilitate dozer and hand line.

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