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Schwachheim Fire Update Sunday, April 19, 2026 – 8 a.m. Colorado Incident Management Team Phil Daniels, Incident Commander Size: 1,582 acres | Containment: 50% | Total Personnel: 120 Location: Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area, 14 miles southeast of Trinidad in Las Animas County Reported: April 12, 2026, at 2:45 p.m.…

By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media It was an all-hands-on deck late Friday night call as reports of an explosion began to inundate Raton Dispatch at 11:11 p.m. The incident occurred in a duplex housing unit at 610/612 Sugarite Ave. Upon arrival, Raton Fire and Colfax County Rapid Response found the…

Schwachheim Fire Update Saturday, April 18, 2026 – 8 a.m. Colorado Incident Management Team Phil Daniels, Incident Commander Size: 1,012 acres | Containment: 63% | Total Personnel: 115 Location: Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area, 14 miles southeast of Trinidad in Las Animas County Reported: April 12, 2026, at 2:45 p.m.…

Schwachheim Fire Update Friday, April 17, 2026 – 8 a.m. Colorado Incident Management Team Phil Daniels, Incident Commander Size: 1,012 acres | Containment: 36% | Total Personnel: 124 Location: Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area, southeast of Trinidad in Las Animas County Reported: April 12, 2026, at 2:45 p.m. Current Situation:…

By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Raton School Board met on Thursday evening April 16, 2026, where they heard the audit report and then reports from principals and Superintendent Kristi Medina and then moved on to the action items where they received the audit report. The audit report presented by…

Colorado Incident Management Team Phil Daniels, Incident Commander Schwachheim Fire Update Thursday, April 16, 2026 – 8 a.m. Size: 1,012 acres | Containment: 36% | Total Personnel: 116 Location: Lake Dorothey State Wildlife Area, southeast of Trinidad in Las Animas County Reported: April 12, 2026, at 2:45 p.m. Special Notes:…

The Raton City Commission met in regular session on Tuesday, April 14 at Raton City Hall. The meeting began with Deputy City Manager Jason Phillips giving an update on the Schwachheim Fire near Lake Dorothey in the City’s watershed above Lake Maloya.  Phillips said as of midnight on Monday,  it…

By Marty Mayfield KRTN Multi-Media The Schwachheim Fire that flared up on Sunday afternoon April 12, as of 5:00 p.m. Monday evening was estimated to have grown to over 450 acres according to a post by the Hoehne Fire Protection District whose district the fire is in. The fire is…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Colfax County Fire Marshal’s Office Wildland Fire Response Near Lake Dorothy – Unified Effort Ongoing Colfax County, NM — 4/12/2026 At approximately 2:30 pm on Sunday, April 12, fire crews were dispatched to a reported tree fire around Lake Dorothy, in Colorado just north of Lake Maloya…