Sierra Madre Fire Mitigation team holds public forum

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories of fire mitigation in the Medicine Bow National Forest.

More than 30 people attended the Sierra Madre Fire Preparedness meeting September 9 at the Encampment Opera House.

Lenny Layman, Carbon County Emergency Management Coordinator, organized the meeting with several county and local entities as a panel to explain their coordination when and if there is a fire.

Layman said he decided to organize the panel because residents of Encampment were asking him questions about what happens if a fire breaks out in the Sierra Madre Range.

Layman bel...