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Cuba Fire Rescue is proud to introduce our newest equipment additions to our volunteer department.

Tender 12 is a 2021 Freightliner M2 106 Tandem wheel tanker. This much needed apparatus which carries 3,000 gallons on board and can readily drop a portable 3,000 gal. tank for a total of 6,000 gallons available. This is like gold in our area and will provide a service our communities for years to come. The truck was purchased in cash with the help of a Fire Protection Grant, and Fire Protection Funds from the Cuba Fire Department. Chief Romero, and CFD member Anna Sanchez, recently drove the truck home, from where in was built in Minnesota.

Rescue 12 is a brand-new Ford F-450 4X4 Ambulance. This marks the very first time that Cuba Fire Rescue has procured a new ambulance, and the first 4-wheel drive ambulance in our community. It is no mystery that with inclement winter weather, we many times are challenged to provide an adequate service to our citizens. A letter from Chief Romero to Representative Christine Chandler during last year’s legislative session resulted in state legislators agreeing to grant us $250,000 to purchase this much needed ambulance.

Congratulations to the Cuba community!

Cuba Fire Rescue is partnering with Sandoval County Fire Rescue and other fire agencies around the state to include the U.S. Forest Service by placing a burn ban within Cuba Village limits and in the County’s unincorporated areas effective May 24th, 2021. Open burning or flames will not be allowed. (Use of gas BBQ grills and stoves will still be allowed.)

FIREWORKS: It is hereby provided that safe and sane fireworks shall be permitted within the Village limits. This shall mean and include all fireworks that have no report, that are not self-propelling and the effects of which do not extend above ten feet in height from the ground. Read the Warning Label. If it reads “WARNING,” it is illegal. If it reads “CAUTION,” it is legal. Fireworks can only be used on paved or dirt areas free of vegetation and other flammable materials. A water source must be always present.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

This $2 million project, which begins on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 and is expected to last through spring 2021, will rehabilitate an existing bridge and slightly more than one-third mile of U.S. 550 over Rito Leche in Cuba, New Mexico from south of Trujillo Street to just south of Sandoval Blvd. The bridge is old and is in need of replacement for better safety.

TRAFFIC IMPACTS – PHASE 1

The project will be built in four (4) phases with some sub-phases. El Terrero Construction, LLC is the contractor. The first phase, which is expected to last for about one month, will allow the contractor to re-build the eastern half of the bridge, including new sidewalk, curb ramps and bridge railing and tying in the new bridge to existing pavement.

During this phase the following traffic impacts will be in place:

• The inside lane of southbound U.S. 550 will be closed with one lane of traffic in the inside lane.

• The outside lane of northbound U.S. 550 will be closed with one lane of traffic in the inside lane, which will shift across the median into the southbound lane.

• Traffic will be detoured as shown on the map.

• Pedestrians will also be detoured.

Regular work hours will be 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, although the contractor may work longer hours or on weekends as needed. All construction is weather permitting and is subject to change without notice.

For More Information:

Delane Baros, Public Information Officer, NMDOT District 4, 505-240-1392, Delane.Baros@state.nm.us

Patti Watson, 505-245-3134 or 505-269-9691, pattiw@cwastrategic.com

Lucas Baca, 505-417-9989, lucasb@cwastrategic.com

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) is in the process of developing a website for registration for the COVID-19 vaccine. Once built, all New Mexico residents will be able to login and register to receive a vaccination. It will be the responsibility of NMDOH to determine the order of vaccine distribution to the general public, based on a number of determining factors, such as whether or not the individual is in a High-Risk category.

Once completed and launched, the website will gather information supplied by the individual requesting a vaccine, and then will notify them of their status and when they will be able to receive the vaccine at a later date. 

NMDOH will be the point of contact for all vaccination information and will notify Sandoval County’s public health officials as soon as they know when shipments of the vaccine will be made available for the community. At that point, Sandoval County will begin advertising Vaccination Points of Distribution via news media outlets, social media, and county and partner websites or newsletters. It is anticipated that the earliest the County might receive vaccines for the general public is mid-March or April.

Please feel free to call Department of Health hotline 855-600-3453 if you have questions or need more information.  Call 911 if you need medical help.