Jul. 24—A newly released report from the U.S. Forest Service says the 2022 Cerro Pelado Fire in the Jemez Mountains was the third fire last year in New Mexico caused by a prescribed burn gone awry.

For the past five months, officials with the U.S. Forest Service have refused to turn over records they say are related to a law enforcement investigation into the cause of last year’s Cerro Pelado ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service’s own prescribed burn started a sprawling 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, the agency acknowledged Monday in a report published ...