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By Roger Lanse
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According to the Pinos Altos Volunteer Fire Department, they were paged out to a manufactured home fire at Highway 15 near Sanctuary Road at 8:52 a.m., this morning, May 16, 2025.
Also responding are the Tyrone and Whiskey Creek VFDs, the Silver City Fire Department, and the Grant County Fire Management Office. The fire is being worked at this time – 9:45 a.m., and what was originally reported as black smoke is now white.
Additional information will be coming as the Beat receives it.
The Grant County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Forest Service also responded to this structure fire. The New Mexico Fire Marshal's Office is handling the investigation into the cause of the blaze.
All together, approximately 40 fire-fighting personnel were on scene from the various agencies, along with several engines, water tenders, brush trucks, and command vehicles.
The mobile home appeared to be a total loss.
Investigation is continuing.
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According to Silver City Fire Department Battalion Chief Nathan Schwartz, there was one fatality, a female, in the structure fire.
SCFD arrived at the scene at 9:04 a.m. to a structure fire which had morphed into a small brush fire. They left the scene, Schwarz said, at 1:52 p.m.
Investigation of the incident continues.
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Grant County Sheriff's Office staff told the Beat on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, that the body of a female discovered in the single-wide mobile home that was destroyed by fire on Highway 15 near Sanctuary Road on Friday, May 16, has been taken to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque. GCSO has not yet received word of identification of the body.
GCSO originally was told there might have been a second body, but no other than the female was found.
Smoking, fireworks, campfires, open burning, open fires are prohibi
tedSANTA FE – Today the Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Forestry Division, under the direction of State Forester Laura McCarthy, will enact fire restrictions in the following counties: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia. They will remain in effect until rescinded.
The restrictions come as a response to the increasingly dry and warm conditions in southern New Mexico -- conditions heightened by low humidity, high winds and the abundance of dry fine fuels across our forests and grasslands. With wildfire danger at extremely high levels, the State Forester has placed the following restrictions on non-municipal, non-federal, and non-Tribal lands in Catron, Chaves, Cibola, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, Socorro, Torrence, and Valencia counties:
Prohibited
Cleared Difficult Driving Conditions in Luna Co. Removed from NM Roads.
REMOVED: HIGH WIND WEATHER ADVISORY:
High wind warning in Hildago, Dona Ana and Luna Counties, visibility is low in areas due to blowing dust. High profile vehicles please use caution. The NMDOT will continue monitoring the roadway. This event will be updated as conditions change.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Deming to Las Cruces
Difficult Driving Conditions, I 10 eastbound and westbound from mile marker 93, 8 miles east of Deming to mile marker 95, 10 miles east of Deming.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Deming to Columbus
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 11 northbound and southbound from mile marker 15, 11 miles north of Columbus to mile marker 17, 9 miles south of Sunshine.
High Winds - High profile vehicles use extreme caution. Blowing dust may cause limited visibility.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Deming to Columbus
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 11 northbound and southbound from mile marker 14, 10 miles north of Columbus to mile marker 15, 11 miles north of Columbus.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Deming to Akela
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 549 eastbound and westbound lanes from mile marker 0 to mile marker 16 due to dust and high winds.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Deming
Difficult Driving Conditions, I 10 eastbound and westbound from mile marker 90, 5 miles east of Deming to mile marker 96, 11 miles east of Deming.
Silver City Mayor Ken Ladner welcomes the business to Silver CityPhotos by Mary Alice Murphy
The SOS Truck, which stands for Shred On Site, held a ribbon cutting and a discount offer to shred documents at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
On the blustery day. SOS Truck owners Tonya and Matt Gilbert welcomed clients with bags of paper to have their items shredded right there. Also on hand was Chef Wise, offering fish, shrimp and vegetarian tacos.
For more information on the shredding on site services, call 575-313-4436 or email them at
SOS Truck co-owner Tonya Gilbert ready to cut the ribbon, which quickly blew away.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
The Silver City Council in 2025 decided to return to a past tradition, the Battle of the Badges. The competition, with this year the theme of disabilities, pitted the various first responder agencies to a challenge of understanding how people will disabilities deal with challenges every day.
Mayor Pro Tem and Councilor Guadalupe Cano organized the event, along with a committee. She invited four agencies to participate in various challenges, including a track raced on crutches, a cornhole toss with visual disabilities, a challenge of trying to get across a message for those with hearing disabilities, without using spoken words, a wheelchair race and various trivia questions that contestants had to answer.
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