The total destruction of this drainage into Gallinas Creek gives a sense of the challenges facing those trying to rebuild their forested homes in the area burned by New Mexico's largest wildfire. Source: Inciweb/National Wildfire Coordinating Group
“The federal government accidentally burned down their houses, then made it hard to come home” by Patrick Lohmann, Source NM and ProPublica April 27, 2023
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
