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Police Beat 06-18-13

Police Beat items are compiled from public information contained in Los Alamos Police Department Records. Charges or citations listed in Police Beat do not imply innocence or guilt. The Los Alamos Police Department uses the term “arrest” to define anyone who has been physically arrested, served a court summons, or issued a citation.

June 10
Marion L. Loope, of Los Alamos was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and assault and battery on healthcare personnel in the 3900 block of West Road.

June 11

Tanner N. Barber, of Los Alamos was arrested on a magistrate court bench warrant in the 2700 block of Walnut Street.

Relaxing times at SummerFest
House appropriators propose cuts...

WASHINGTON — House appropriators are looking to provide nearly $200 million less than the Obama administration has sought for nuclear weapons programs in fiscal 2014, even as fellow Republicans on other committees argue the administration is not requesting enough.

The draft energy and water spending bill released by the House Appropriations Committee on Monday would provide $7.7 billion for nuclear weapons activities, nearly $193 million less than the $7.87 billion the White House requested. It is nearly $400 million less than the $8.08 billion that would be allowed by the annual defense authorization legislation drafted by the House Armed Services Committee and approved by the House on Friday.

Republicans on the House Armed Service Committee have argued that the administration’s request is not enough to meet the terms of a 2010 deal made during lawmaker negotiations on ratification of the New START arms control deal with Russia, in which the president agreed to spend $85 billion over 10 years on nuclear arms complex modernization.

Thompson Ridge Fire 90 percent...

The Arizona Central West Zone Incident Management Team completed a seamless transition of the Thompson Ridge Fire to the Albuquerque Zone Type III Incident Management Team at 6 a.m. Tuesday.

he latest update was 23,903 acres and the fire was 90 percent contained.

The Central West Team dispatched 1,092 firefighters and support personnel to fight the fire when it was at its peak.
Air operations recorded 335 hours of flight time during which more than 380,000 gallons of water and 80,000 gallons of retardant were dropped.

A team from the New Mexico National Guard took the better part of two days to reel in the 41 miles of fire hose that wound its way through the landscape.

For the fourth consecutive day fire activity was restricted to unburned fuels within the interior where a total of four acres have burned since Friday.

Minimal fire activity is expected today while crews continue rehab and patrol of the perimeter.

A weather change tomorrow is expected to bring an increase in winds and drier weather which may increase fire activity within the interior

Update 06-18-13

Camp May closed

Due to construction, Camp May is closed to overnight camping and picnicking until further notice. Construction is estimated to be completed by mid-July. Access to the Santa Fe National Forest remains open from the Ski Hill parking lot.

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BPU meeting

The Board of Public Utilites will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Municipal Building.

June MOWW meeting

Carol Burns, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chemistry Division leader, will present a talk on “Nuclear Forensics,” 6 p.m. today at the monthly dinner meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars Chapter 229. The dinner is at Los Alamos County Research Park, Hot Rocks Java Café.

Environmental

The Environmental Sustainability Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the community building training room.

Council

The County Councl will meet at 7 p.m. June 25 in the Municipal Building. 

T-Board hears project updates

The Los Alamos Transportation Board agenda was packed with updates on various projects during a regular meeting June 6.

Bandelier National Monument’s Chief of Resources Barbara Judy presented the transportation aspect of the proposed Tsankawi Management Plan.

The National Park Service proposes building a new visitor staging area with parking aligned with the N.M. 4/East Jemez Road intersection. This would create a four-way intersection with a signal light. Cameras would be trained on the staging area access to provide egress from the staging area only as needed.

“We recognize that the primary traffic movement needs to be along highway 4,” Judy said. “The idea would be that we would minimally add to the burden on that intersection.”

Bandelier staff has been working with the New Mexico Department of Transportation on a request for a Federal Highway Administration Federal Lands Access Grant.

T-board members asked Judy to make sure the plan includes an Atomic City Transit stop with a safe turnaround for buses.

The plan will be made available for public comment in August.

Airport Manager Peter Soderquist updated the board on air service use and the new flight schedules that were implemented June 10.

NM disability payments spike by...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The number of people in New Mexico receiving disability payments through the Social Security system has exceeded even the increasing national trend.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that a review of data from the Social Security Administration showed that the number of former workers in New Mexico getting Social Security Disability Insurance grew by nearly 66 percent from 2002 to 2011.

During the same period, the growth nationally was nearly 55 percent.

According to the latest numbers, 60,803 New Mexicans were getting SSDI disabled worker benefits as of December 2011. Nationally, that figure was 8,575,544.

The national increase is variously attributed to demographics, economic factors, and the expansion of eligibility criteria in the 1980s, and there appears to be no clear consensus about the reason for the upswing.

Top honors

School volunteer Bernadette Lauritzen was recently awarded a “2013 Excellence for Student Achievement Award” by the New Mexico School Boards Association.
Lauritzen received a recognition certificate from the Los Alamos School Board for her efforts

Raw: Huge Fire Near Yosemite...

Fire officials in California say an unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a blaze that has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people.

Work begins to counter effects...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Wildfires have charred nearly 100 square miles of dry, rugged terrain across New Mexico since the end of May.

The largest fire is still raging in the Gila National Forest, but teams of scientists are scouring dozens of square miles in northern New Mexico to assess the damage from two other blazes that are nearly contained.

The teams are looking at the severity of the burn, damage to the soil and possible effects to streams and roads throughout Pecos Canyon and at the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

In all, the Tres Lagunas Fire north of Pecos and the Thompson Ridge Fire on the preserve burned more than 53 square miles in less than three weeks.

Both blazes were 90 percent contained Tuesday.

The Silver Fire burning in the Gila is only 5 percent contained.