
Forest Service officials are hitting a pause on prescribed fires after a New Mexico burn escaped containment
CNN
The US Forest Service is hitting a pause on prescribed fire operations in all the system's lands across the US because of "extreme wildfire risk conditions," Chief Randy Moore announced Friday.
The news follows a meeting federal officials had earlier in the day with the governor of New Mexico, where a prescribed fire escaped containment last month and has since grown to more than 300,000 acres.
During the pause on those operations, the Forest Service will conduct a 90-day review of protocols, practices and the decision support tools ahead of the operations planned for the fall, the chief said.

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