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| CERRO GRANDE FIRE – Contact Information |
May 15, 2000 |
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CERRO GRANDE FIRE – Contact Information
The Cerro Grande Fire Joint Information Center
Located at 1027 North Railroad Ave., in Espanola. This center is staffed by representatives of US Forest Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Government and many other personnel. Phone number: (505)-753-2032, 2038, 2221, 2212, 2213, 2218, 2220.
Web Sites
* List of damaged structures www.lanl.gov and www.lac.losalamos.nm.us
* Short-term housing for evacuees www.newmex.com
* Evacuee-finder-search www.santafe.edu/fire
* Finder-search plus fire information www.fire.nmipa.org
* Los Alamos National Laboratory information www.lanl.gov/worldview
* Southwest Interagency Coordinating Center www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire/
* Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) www.FEMA.GOV
* Albuquerque Journal www.abqjournal.com/firepage.htm
* New Mexico Fire Information Center www.fire.nmipa.org/
Phone Numbers
INSURANCE CLAIMS
For help in filing a claim, or for general independent insurance agent information, call (800) 621-3978 or 843-7231 in Albuquerque. If your insurance agent is in a city other than Los Alamos, you should call your agent to report a claim. Most major insurance companies will have catastrophe teams available to victims.
* Allstate, (800) 547-8676; De Vargas Mall and Cities of Gold Casino have mobile command centers
* All America/Hanover, (800) 628-0250
* Chubb, (800) 252-4670
* CNA, (800) 588-7400
* Colorado Casualty, (800) 244-1200
* Empire Fire and Marine Insurance, (800) 228-9283 ext. 5004
* Foundation Reserve Insurance Co., (800) 788-8851
* The Hartford, (800) 243-5860
* Kemper Homeowners, (800) 321-5344 ext. 5469
* Kemper Business Insurance, (800) 321-9515 ext. 5435
* MetLife Auto & Home, (800) 854-6011
* Miller`s Mutual/Casualty, (800) 448-5741
* Mountain States Insurance Group, (800) 274-1051
* Progressive, (800) 274-4499
* Safeco, (888) 557-5010
* St. Paul, (800) 387-8734
* State Farm Insurance, (505) 438-6700; claims are being handled out of the Santa Fe claims office at 2590 Camino Entrada.
Other Important Contact Information
* The University of New Mexico Los Alamos Branch Campus has a toll-free number, (888) 272-8472, for students, faculty and staff to get information about temporary housing at the Albuquerque campus, receiving paychecks and final exams.
Information also can be obtained by calling Carlos Ramirez, director of the UNM Los Alamos Branch Campus, at 660-1517, or Debbie Valdez of the UNM Los Alamos campus at 660-3760 or 753-9309.
* If you are looking for someone who has been displaced, call the Red Cross in Albuquerque at 265-8514 or visit the New Mexico Fire Evacuee Database online at www.nmgrande.com.
* Several other phone numbers are available for information: American Red Cross, Santa Fe chapter, for housing: 424-1611; American Red Cross, Los Alamos chapter, for housing: 662-7165; Los Alamos Fire Information Center, 667-0351; and Channel 4 Eyewitness News Evacuee hot line, 222-3232.
* US West and the Communications Workers of America have created an Employee Resource Center to help evacuees at 1608 Truman SE. The center will assist employees and their families with temporary housing, counseling and general information. Call (505) 266-5876 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for more information.
* An empty department store at the De Vargas Mall, a downtown Santa Fe shopping center, is being prepared as a Federal Emergency Management Administration center to help people whose homes have been destroyed. 562 North Guadalupe, (505) 988-2775.
* New Mexico Home Builders Los Alamos a fire victims hotline (888) 773-7422.
* The Espanola Animal Shelter (505) 753-8662
* The Santa Fe Animal Shelter (505) 983-4309
COUNSELING
* Catholic Charities of Santa Fe will provide crisis counseling for anyone in need. Call (505) 424-9789 for more information.
LODGING
* A list of lodging available for evacuees is on the Internet at www.fire.newmex.com.
* New Mexico Highlands University is providing free lodging and meals. Call 425-7511.
* The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque is offering rooms. Call 277-6448.
* American Red Cross emergency shelters are located at Ben Lujan Gym at the Pojoaque Elementary and Intermediate campus, and Cities of Gold Casino and Hotel in Pojoaque, 455-3313.
Joy Junction, an Albuquerque homeless shelter, is offering to house and feed fire victims and their pets. Call (800) 924-0569.
* The state fairgrounds in Albuquerque has 500 beds available and is taking in farm animals. Donations will be accepted for pet food and other essentials.
* The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District Office is offering free camping at two of its recreation sites. The Abiquiu Dam Project Office near Española and the Cochiti Lake Project near Santa Fe will allow free camping at their sites for two weeks. Call (505) 465-0307 or (505) 685-4371 for more information.
MAIL
* Los Alamos postal customers may pick up their mail at a temporary post office location from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Monday at the Pojoaque High School`s Ben Lujan Gymnasium, 1574 State Route 502 in Pojoaque.
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
* Employees should call 667-6622 for information about lab operations.
* Displaced employees are being urged to call the following numbers to register their locations with the lab. Those numbers are: (800) 709-8835 and (800) 357-1459 in Santa Fe, or (877) 494-9922 and (877) 494-9933.
* Two laboratory outreach offices in Española and Santa Fe are being staffed seven days a week 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to provide information and referral services. The Española office is at the Northern New Mexico Community College on U.S. 84; the Santa Fe office is at 1850 Old Pecos Trail, Suite E. They can be reached at the numbers listed above.
Offers of Assistance
Taos Pueblo
Will assist those impacted by this disaster. Please call the Governor’s Office at 505-758-9593. The Taos Mountain Casino is offering free food and water for any evacuated persons who identify themselves as such at the Casino.
If you need any additional information, please don’t hesitate to contact my Albuquerque office at (505) 346-6781. |
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