New Mexico
With wildfires raging in New Mexico, governor calls for fireworks ban – KVIA
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With tens of hundreds of acres of land burning in a number of corners of New Mexico, the governor is looking on native leaders to ban the sale of fireworks.
“Hearth circumstances throughout New Mexico stay extraordinarily harmful,” wrote Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in a information launch. “It’s important that we mitigate potential wildfires by eradicating as a lot danger as doable.”
In latest weeks, highly effective winds and dry circumstances have led to a number of fires burning 160,000 acres throughout New Mexico, in accordance with the governor’s workplace. Greater than 70% of New Mexico is in excessive to distinctive drought, in accordance with the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The governor doesn’t have the facility to situation a statewide fireworks ban, however counties and cities can situation a ban on the native degree.
