New Mexico Wildfire Investigation
FILE – An American Flag on a fence blows in the wind along NM 22 as the Cerro Pelado Fire burns in the Jemez Mountains, April 29, 2022, in Cochiti, N.M. The U.S. Forest Service said on Monday, July 24, 2023, that its own prescribed burn started the 2022 wildfire that nearly burned into Los Alamos, N.M. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)