Los Alamos Fire and Chamisa Local Council update

Here is an update on the fire from Azrael - First Officer of the Chamisa Local Council

"Dear COGkin,

Thank you for your calls and e-mails of support and offers of shelter from the Las Conchas fire.

Ardantane is 20 miles upwind of the fire, so we're not even getting much smoke, and are safe unless the wind does a seasonally uncharacteristic about-face.

Peter Dybing is on-site, providing med help for firefighters, and we hope he can visit Ardantane when his duties are done and before he gets sent somewhere else.

Our Lady of the Woods has been heavily impacted. All of the members who live in Los Alamos have evacuated to safe havens with friends, family, or covenmates. The covenstead is in White Rock, which has not yet received evacuation orders, so our HPS and HP are staying put for the time being.

What we could use from all of you is rain energy. At Ardantane's Sunfest last week, we listened to a simulated thuderstorm and then chanted,
"Bring the rain,
Bring the Rain,
Bring the gentle, female rain,"
for about ten minutes. Thirty-six hours later (it takes time for rainclouds to build from nothing), we got a half an hour of gentle, female rain, at a time of the year when that is unheard-of. Magick works

So I've been letting that chant be my "can't get it out of my head" chant ever since, directing the rain toward the fire. And yesterday Rowan said they heard two great thunderclaps in White Rock and had a little actual rain! Magick works, folks, so please, chant the chant and direct the rain to northern New Mexico for us, and to the other wildfires burning in the Southwest. We've just got a plea from someone on the Navajo reservation asking for help from the Wallow fire, which is still burning and threatening them."

If anything else changes, I'll let you know. Otherwise, we'll see you at Merry Meet in Dallas!

In Service to the Lady and the Lord
BB Azrael
First Officer, Chamisa Local Council"

More Los Alamos fire news links - 9:00 a.m.
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/las-conchas-wildfire-3-contained
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/los-alamos-monitor-06282011
http://youtu.be/7AO0wkHwO4E
http://abcnews.go.com/US/los-alamos-fire-epa-testing-radiation/story?id=13953953
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wildfires/2011-06-28-los-alamos-wildfire_n.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/epas-flying-laboratory-dispatched-to-monitor-air-as-wildfire-burns-near-nm-nuclear-lab/2011/06/29/AGS7ujqH_story.html
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2177786.shtml?cat=504&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kob4
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/28/MN6U1K3R8S.DTL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ligk20MNlGU&feature=player_embedded#at=23
http://www.koat.com/r/28393656/detail.html
Links for 6:00 p.m.
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/fire-update-930-pm
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2179081.shtml?cat=500
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/29/eveningnews/main20075567.shtml
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/features-2/world-from-space/the-world-from-space-las-conchas-fire-new-mexico/22061.html/comment-page-1
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/06/29/abqnewsseeker/shelters-housing-evacuated-animals-need-supplies.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/06/fire-crews-burn-barrier-to-protect-los-alamos-lab/1
Links for 7/2/2011 - 10:00 a.m.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2182810.shtml
http://www.lamonitor.com/content/reverse-911-calls-will-determine-when-residents-can-return
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/us/02wildfire.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/las-conchas-fire-near-los-alamos-largest-in-new-mexico-history/2011/07/01/AGcNXptH_blog.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/01/new.mexico.los.alamos/

Los Alamos fire near the Ardantane Learning Center

We just got off the phone with long time CoG member and supporter -  Azrael from Ardentane in New Mexico.  The fire that is threatening the National Laboratory and the city of Los Alamos is now burning about 20 miles away from the Ardentane campus near Jemez Springs.  For now the wind is blowing in a direction away from Ardentane and toward Los Alamos.  Earlier today they had some smoke drift by, but so far they are not in immediate danger.

                                                                         Ardentane


Here are some messages from the Ardantane website: http://ardantane.org/blog/blog.php?id=9216422879125380177

"By now, many of you have heard that a huge wildfire is raging in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. (Our campus is located about six miles south of Jemez Springs).

At this point, the Las Conchas Fire is moving away from Ardantane, and toward Los Alamos. Very bad news for Los Alamos, which was hit hard in the Cerro Grande Fire in 2000. The fire is now at 60,000 acres (which I believe is the largest in NM state history) and 0% contained.

There is significant smoke at Ardantane, and if it gets worse we might have to evacuate resident staff and visitors. But so far there is no immediate danger to the campus.

If conditions change, we will provide an update here. Thanks to the many people who have offered shelter in the homes, in case of evacuation.

If you would like to help, please work magick for rain here, and for the safety of firefighters and all those in the fire's path."

"Greetings All,

In our prayers and magickal workings let us remember those who are threatened by the Wallow Fire in Arizona, as well as the Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico. Please read the letter below, and take action.

Blessed be, Amber K

Executive Director, Ardantane Pagan Learning Center

Telephone: 505-469-7777
Address: Ardantane, P.O. Box 307, Jemez Springs, NM 87025

Website: www.ardantane.org

Beloved Sisters and Brothers,

This prayer request came to me today from a soul sister. I am inspired to 
add "all living beings, including the beloved green beings", to the prayer 
request.

In Gratitude,
Deni

Wallow Fire ~ Special Request from our Native Brothers and Sisters

Sent from a "Navajo sister" to all of us.

The Wallow Fire in Arizona, the largest in Arizona history, is still only 
half contained. The fire has destroyed everything in its path, over a half 
million acres so far. Not only are our tribal lands at stake (White Mountain 
& San Carlos Apaches, possibly Zuni, and some Navajo areas), but our 
non-native friends also need our help.

All the choppers, manpower, planes, and bulldozers are not enough. They need 
our help.

We are one Nation as Natives and our traditional prayers to the Creator as 
Natives can be very powerful, especially when we all connect our minds, 
hearts and our prayers across the miles and pray.

Please join us in a tribal prayer to help the firefighters and all involved. 
Wherever you are and whatever you are doing right now, please stop for a few 
minutes and raise your hands to the Creator to ask for help:

"I pray so the winds stop and the rains start (without lightning please). I 
pray for the safety of all humans, birds and animals. I ask for heavenly 
walls to protect our land and animals from fire".

If your spiritual preference is not traditional, pray with us in however way 
you talk to the Creator.

If all of you can forward this message across the Nations, we can reach many 
thru phone and internet. Please start forwarding ASAP to reach as many as we 
can.

Thank you,

Dorothea Stevens,
San Carlos Apache Nation"

Our National First Officer - Peter Dybing has been dispatched to this fire by the US Forest Service and FEMA. He should be reaching the affected area just about now. We all wish him and the staff and students of Ardantane our best in this perilous time.

More news on the fire near Ardantane:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/los-alamos-fire-new-mexico_n_885835.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/us-wildfires-losalamos-idUSTRE75R12820110629

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0628/New-Mexico-fires-threaten-Los-Alamos-nuclear-weapons-lab-again

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20075074-264/watching-a-wildfire-hit-home-from-5000-miles-away/

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mexico-wildfire-forces-los-alamos-lab-close-residents/story?id=13947824

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13937781

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N326DbnaNvA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMN3k_f5kU&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwhG1xOIkEE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXwYP8T7p-Q&feature=player_embedded#at=19

Find out how you can help the Las Conchas fire responders and evacuees
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2176544.shtml?cat=504
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/local/food-donations-needed-for-evacuees

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/los-alamos-nuclear-lab-to-remain-closed-as-new-mexico-wildfire-nears/2011/06/28/AGzySNpH_blog.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k_OShnOZ70

http://blogs.krqe.com/2011/06/28/hot-windy-a-few-storms-fire-conditions-worsen/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/usa/20110627-new-mexico.html

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/weather/wildfires/los-alamos-evacuation-resources

http://blogs.krqe.com/category/wildfires/