LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE SOUTHWEST INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM 3 ON ASSAYII LAKE FIRE: Firefighters monitored the fire along the 8093 Road last night. The fire activity died down about 1 a.m. and the fire held throughout the night. Extreme fire behavior and high winds, with gusts up to 50 mph, will continue in the fire […]
The Navajo Council Resources and Development Committee took up LEGISLATION 0104-14, which is to rescind the RDC’s legislation, RDCD-69-13. that created a RDC subcommittee to draft an agreement with Uranium Resources, Inc., for an In-situ Uranium Mining Demonstration Project near Church Rock, N.M. RDCD-69-13 also acknowledged the right-of-way and surface use by URI of its […]
The Navajo Council Resources and Development Committee continued discussing a report by Navajo Nation Executive Office Chief of Staff Arbin Mitchell on the Assayii Lake Fire. Mitchell reported that President Shelly had issued a STATE OF EMERGENCY for the Navajo Reservation area impacted by the Assayii Lake Fire on June 16, 2014, which includes fire […]
CHIEF OF STAFF ARBIN MITCHELL Fire started on June 13, 2014, and was contained at 40 acres by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Forestry Department’s Navajo Scouts, Type 2 wildland firefighter. But high winds started late Saturday and blew the fire out of control. On Sunday, tribal officials met with BIA officials and a decision […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, At about 7 p.m. today, June 16, 2014, the Assayii Lake Fire was zero contained and had burned about 11,000 acres of land to the northeast of Navajo, N.M., east of Crystal, N.M. and west of Sheep Springs and Naschitti, N.M. The fire started on Friday the 13th in the Camp Assayii recreational […]
