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Add to those conditions the presence of dry fuel — everything from desert bushes and trees to combustible materials in buildings — and you have the makings of a dangerous, perhaps tragic, fire. On March 16, a brush fire in Socorro spread quickly, destroying three homes and damaging five others. County Judge Anthony Cobos said, "With the high winds and the incident we had last week in Socorro, I think that it (ban on burning) is a precaution we should take." But it’s not just people burning off weeds or homeowners burning trash who need to be careful. Someone mindlessly throwing away a still-smoldering cigarette butt can also start a fire. All that has to happen is for the winston cigarettes to fall in some dry weeds, be encouraged by a little breeze, and there you have a brush fire. Or maybe someone’s cooking out and the wind blows a few embers into the brush, or you dump burning embers into a trash can or just out in the desert. Or maybe someone thinks, "It won’t hurt just to burn a few little weeds."
