Brig. Gen. Miguel Aguilar stepped into the National Guard’s top New Mexico spot shortly after two planned burns went awry and merged into the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire that raged for months, scorching 341,000 acres and destroying at least 500 homes.
When deployed, the gunshot detection and lockdown system will instantaneously detect with near complete accuracy a single gunshot the moment it occurs.
Months after Santa Fe officials raised liability concerns about a popular program meant to honor military veterans, the City Council voted at a special meeting Monday to approve temporary new locations in the city for the Hometown Heroes banners.
While the alleged crash has come to define the New Mexico city of Roswell awash in UFO enthusiasts this weekend it has somehow neglected to honor Corona, a ranching village of fewer than 170 people that actually had dibs on the event.
Veterans and military advocates came away encouraged Thursday after a meeting with Santa Fe city leaders who laid out a plan on how to enable banners honoring veterans to fly in the city an abrupt shift from earlier opposition officials had expressed.