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"Fire and smoke billowing over southwest Albuquerque caused Bosque area residents to go into defensive mode.Fire officials said the 4-acre fire that started Saturday afternoon near La Vega Drive and Riverside Road is 100 percent contained.\"My goodness, never, never had I seen it like this,\" resident George Hererra said.Residents also jumped in to help make sure their homes were safe.\"We have been here since 1989 in this house. But this house was built back in the '40s or '50s, so I just hope we don't lose our homes,\" resident Fernando Vasquez said.As of Saturday evening, fire officials said someone was responsible for the blaze, but the exact cause was not known.Officials said the fire burned mostly grass and branches on the ground, and it's a good thing flames didn't climb the trees.\"When the fire goes to the tree top, that's when a fire is most dangerous,\" Public Information Officer Larry Gallegos said.Throughout the day, residents feared one change of the wind could cost them their homes.\"It is scary. You don't play with fire,\" Hererra said.On Sunday, crews spent the day mopping up hot spots.Jeremiah Hansen of the Albuquerque Fire Department said the treatment trimmed trees and cut up fallen trunks and branches to reduce the chances of the fire starting on the ground and going up the trees.\"What you're seeing is fire that actually went through one of our treated areas,\" Hansen said. \"You see that this here is the left over biomass of those fuels that were in here that we treated and we got rid of, by basically mulching them up and putting them down in the ground.\"Hansen said the fire could have been worse if not for the treatment.Firefighters are going through the area carefully, making sure the flames are completely out.Fire officials said the crews are using thermal imaging cameras to find the hot spots and put them out.Hansen said collections of cotton from trees carried the fire on the ground burning in a mosaic pattern, leaving some areas untouched.\"It just kind of skipped over to those as those lit up it moved into those smaller fuels small leaves and small brush,\" Hansen said.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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