Incident Media Videos

The first task of the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team is to create a Soil Burned Severity (SBS) map that will be the basis for the Team's hydrologic analysis to determine impacts to Forest Service critical values. The SBS is the basis for potentail debris flow modeling as well.  THis video explains the procss the scitnist suse to validate soil burn severity across the Blue 2 Fire.

Hydrologist Danelle Scott checks soil burn severity on the Blue 2 Fire June 6, 2024 Scientist are looking at soil properties including, but are not limited to hydrophobicity (water repellency), soil organic matter content, soil pore space, soil cover (effective litter), and soil structure (degree of aggregation).

A view of the City of Alamogordo detention basin construction on the northeast corner of Bonito Lake Reservoir taken from the BAER recon flight on June 5, 2024.

The Burned Area emergency Response (BAER) Team did an initial review of the fire by doing a recon flight in the southeast corner of the Blue 2 Fire on June 5, 2024.  The Blue 2 fire is entirely within the 2012 Little Bear Fire and has burned through pockets of downed logs from the Littel Bear Fire.

A view of the City of Alamogordo detention basin construction near the southern shore of Bonito Lake Reservoir taken from the BAER recon flight on June 5, 2024.

BAER Team initial recon flight on June 5 2024 looking at the upper reaches of the south fork of Bonito Creek and the fire to the southern edge the fire.  The Peacock Trail is the trail swithbacking in the foreground at the end of the video.

The Burned Area Emergency Response Team flew a recon flight to get there first eyes on the burn severity caused by the Blue 2 Fire along Bonito Creek and around Bonito Lake.