The draft law on the prevention of wild fire goes further into the New Mexico legislature

Santa Fe, NM – while our state -of -the -art parliamentarians can do nothing about the wind, they know that there are ways to get rid of the additional fuel before the next fire hit.

Experts say more are coming. However, they also say that there are ways to ensure that houses, buildings and other properties are ready to withstand these flames.

A bipartidist plan at Roundhouse could arouse change.

“We had our lessons and we don’t learn from them. And I am tired of looking at the properties and lives of people to climb in flames, “said the representative of the state of Harlan Vincent, R-District 56, Ruidoso.

Vincent, former head of Ridoso firefighters, witnessed the destruction of South Fork and last year’s salt. He believes that another disaster is growing in state forests in New Mexico.

“We should have about 50 trees on acre. At this moment we have 1,000 trees on acre and we have to reduce fuel, ”Vincent said. “We have to make it safer for our people. We need to make it safer, so we can receive insurance on our homes. “

Vincent and other state parliamentarians who support the prepared fire law. It is a bill of $ 20 million, aimed at increasing the efforts to mitigate the state fire, by expanding the working group for the state’s fire planning. This would provide the state with more resources to do things such as thinning the forest on state lands and to help the new Mexicans properly prepare their homes.

“We will not stop completely wild fires. We can reduce them, and the draft law 33 of the Senate receives us to the things we can actually control. And this is the vegetation around our property, “said Laura McCarthy, New Mexico State Forester.

Harlan says that owners of property and local groups could request subsidies to help pay for these fire mitigation efforts. Hope is to provide insurance suppliers a certain peace of mind.

“What they have constantly told us is that if New Mexico receives an effective program to mitigate wild fire, which is exactly what the draft law 33 of the Senate, then they will do their part,” said McCarthy.

The prepared law of wild fires has already cleaned the state senate. He has bipartidist support in the house, providing him with a clear way to the governor’s office.

“I know it is not a democratic and republican problem. It is a correct and wrong problem. We have to go in there and fix it, and I am with me, ”Vincent said.