Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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A wind driven range fire about 18 miles directly north of Clovis is apparently under control. Clovis Fire Department battalion chief Chet Chenault described the blaze as large but it is not known at this time how much acreage was involved. Chenault said the location of the fire was near the intersection of SR 209 and CR 29. The firefighting continued as far north as CR 33, a distance of about four miles. He said two Clovis Fire Department rigs along with department personnel were dispatched to the location. Melrose, Grady,...
A wind-driven wildfire that started northwest of Portales some time early Thursday afternoon burned through about 2,500 acres, according to a very preliminary estimate from Portales Fire Chief T.J. Cathey, who was the incident commander. There were no injuries to firefighters and no buildings were damaged in the blaze, Cathey said. At 6 p.m., fire crews were patrolling in smoky haze for hotspots a few miles east of US Route 70 along Cacahuate Road, State Route 202. Units from surrounding fire departments, including Clovis,... Full story
Fire departments from Clovis and Texico had personnel and equipment on the scene Wednesday afternoon mopping up after a grass fire north of Clovis. Deputy Fire Chief Fay Craigmile reported the blaze was on the north side of SR 77 "not far from the corn maze." Craigmile reported Curry County sheriff's deputies were on the scene redirecting traffic due to heavy smoke. According to Craigmile some structures were threatened by the fire. This is no word at this time as to the amount of acreage involved....
This is not a drill. Firefighters, emergency management coordinators and weather forecasters are all expecting dangerous weather conditions on Friday. “There is high confidence for a widespread damaging wind and extreme fire weather event on Friday,” according to a news release from Roosevelt County Emergency Manager Johnny Montiel. “This will not be like the past few windy days, but rather Friday has the potential for widespread wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph that will be capable of knocking down large tree limbs, utility poles... Full story
BASEBALL Prep linescores Friday District 4-1A First game Artesia 21, Portales 4 Artesia 171 48 —21 21 1 Portales 003 10 — 4 4 4 Davian Molina and Frankie Galindo; Carson Pfaffenberger, Carmelo Nunez (2), Kaiden Gutierrez (4) and Noah Swift. W — Molina. L — Pfaffenberger. Top hitters — Artesia: Josh Madrid 4-5, 2B, HR, 5 RBIs, 3 runs; Cody Johnson 3-4, 4 RBIs, 2 runs; Julian Rodriguez 3-4, RBI, 2 runs. Portales: Gutierrez 1-1, 2 BBs, run. Records — Artesia 10-9 (2-0), Portales 8-11 (0-2). Second game Artesia 6, Portales 1...
Somebody drove on to the Farwell Country Club’s golf course Tuesday night and tore up the number two green doing “donuts.” “Things were fine yesterday evening when we left,” country club manager Gary Haseloff said. “A neighbor told us they were letting their dog out around 10 or 1030 and they saw a vehicle on the course.” “The neighbor didn’t think anything of it,” Haseloff said. “They thought it might’ve been one of us.” Haseloff said they know the vehicle came off of Stateline Road and did some donuts, drove around and...
