OFFICIALS HAVE TO CALL IN FEDERAL HOTSHOT CREWS OR CREWS FROM OTHER STATES TO HELP. NOW, NEW MEXICO IS TRAINING HOTSHOT CREWS OF ITS OWN. ONLY ON SEVEN. CORY HOWARD SHARES THEIR STORY. GOOD JOB.

That is why a crew from Socorro called the Mimbres wants to achieve Hotshot status. "The state wants a Type 1 Hotshot crew, and we're building two of them," Candice Kutrosky, superintendent of the ...