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Report: LANL not serious about wildland fires

.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... In this May 2000 file photo, Ralph Rodriguez, a member of the National Guard, surveys a neighborhood in northern Los Alamos that was burned in the Cerro Grande Fire. (Josh Stephenson/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A recently released report by the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General suggests that managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory did not take wildland fire prevention seriously enough, despite two catastrophic wildland fires in the past 20 years that threatened the lab and the town, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. “Our review found that activities designed to reduce the impact from wildland fire had not been fully implemented at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in accordance with site plans,” says the opening sentence of a 14-page memo from the Inspector General’s office dated Feb. 1.

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