2025 PHOTOS
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES 2025
Wrap UP: 3/24/2025 - all teams returned home safely.
In late January, NMBDR sent Chaplains, a Logistics Chief and a Feeding Teams to Los Angeles CA, and in Feburary and March provided two more Feeding Teams, an Operations Chief and 4 Personal Property Removal Teams. There were 13 gospel presentations resulting in 6 professions of faith, there were 543 Chaplaincy contacts at the Incident Command post and the various Disaster Operation Centers set up around Los Angeles. Our Chaplains, Cleanup and Feeding teams also had 148 Ministry contacts, distributed 59 bibles and 23 tracks.
A total of 343 NMBDR volunteer days and 3619 volunteer work hours were recorded for the Califorina response. Our Cleanup teams worked on 33 homesites to find personal property that survived the fires. Our feeding teams helped with the Mass Feeding Operation to prepare meals and distribute to the various shelters that were set up around the city as well as preparing meals for the volunteers from across the country who were on site.
2/22 - 3/24
Once California received permission to do Personal Property Recovery (PPR), NMBDR sent a team of 12 to Pasadena, they returned home safely on 3/1. Another PPR team of 5 followed on 3/1 to Santa Monica to do PPR from the Palisades Fire. A third PPR team with 9 volunteers joined them on 3/9 and returned home on 3/24. An Incident Management Operations volunteer served for two weeks with this last group.
CA has sufficient volunteers to finish the work orders, so NMBDR will not send anymore volunteers.
1/29 - 2/17
NMBDR volunteers started arriving on site in the Los Angeles area on January 29. CA had asked for Chaplains and Feeding volunteers. We also sent a Logistics volunteer to help in the Incident Command Post. We sent another FD team and another CP team on 2/9.
The Chaplains worked at UCLA and Altadena where the FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) were set up. The Feeding teams provided support for Mass Feeding Operations as well as feeding Disaster Relief volunteers.
Rio Grande Valley - March Flooding, Brownsville, Texas.
UPDATE: 5/6/2025
Clayton Murphy and his team of 8 volunteers arrived home safely.
While in Brownsfield this team prepared homes for rebuilding by tearing out and carrying out ruined wallboard, carpets, cabinets, furniture and personal belongings. They then did power washing and mold remediation. They also tarped a leaky roof. The team had 56 volunteer days and 448 hours.
TROUT FIRE - Silver City, NM
06/17-
2025 RUIDOSO FLOODS - JULY 9 - AUGUST 2
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2025 VADO FLOODS - JULY 29 - AUGUST 9
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2025 ACTIVITIES
November 4, 2025 Update
We are thankful to have had a break from disasters here in NM for the past few months. However NMBDR volunteers have kept busy serving in neighboring states, supporting BCNM State Convention activities, Inlow Baptist Camp, NMBDR equipment improvement and maintenance, representing NMBDR at the NM Emergency Manager Conference. Anything that is needed our volunteers say "yes - I can do that".
September
- 21 volunteers responded to two small local community projects, one in Alto and one in Weed.
- 8 volunteers cooked 1200 hotdogs for the One Day Mission activity at FBC Silver City
October
- 14 volunteers did chainsaw work and cooking at Inlow Baptist Camp.
- 2 volunteers pulled the NMBDR Laundry Trailer to and from Bayfield, CO and did laundry for the CO cleanup.
UPDATE: 3/24/2025
2/22 - 3/24
Once California received permission to do Personal Property Recovery (PPR), NMBDR sent a team of 12 to Pasadena, they returned home safely on 3/1. Another PPR team of 5 followed on 3/1 to Santa Monica to do PPR from the Palisades Fire. A third PPR team with 9 volunteets joined them on 3/9 and returned home on 3/24. An Incident Management Operations volunteer served for two weeks with this last group.
CA has sufficient volunteers to finish the work orders, so NMBDR will not send anymore volunteers.
1/29 - 2/17
NMBDR volunteers started arriving on site in the Los Angeles area on January 29. CA had asked for Chaplains and Feeding volunteers. We also sent a Logistics volunteer to help in the Incident Command Post. We sent another FD team and another CP team on 2/9.
The Chaplains worked at UCLA and Altadena where the FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) were set up. The Feeding teams provided support for Mass Feeding Operations as well as feeding Disaster Relief volunteers.
UPDATE: 5/6/2025
Clayton Murphy and his team of 8 volunteers arrived home safely.
While in Brownsfield this team prepared homes for rebuilding by tearing out and carrying out ruined wallboard, carpets, cabinets, furniture and personal belongings. They then did power washing and mold remediation. They also tarped a leaky roof. The team had 56 volunteer days and 448 hours.
NMBDR 2024 ACTIVITIES
MARCH
A Recovery team deployed to FBC Canadian TX, in response to devastating wildfires that destroyed homes and pastureland. NMBDR coordinated hay donations from NM and across the nation to farmers in TX who had lost their hay in the wildfire.
APRIL
1. 66 volunteers attended the annual Celebration and Training Event at FBC Rio Rancho. Good food, door prizes and fellowship was enjoyed by all.
2. Volunteers traveled to Santa Fe to assist with the Mission of Mercy Free Dental Clinic.
MAY
1. NMBDR responded with teams from across SBDR Region-1 to Coldspring, TX to help with cleanup of widespread flood damage. Feeding, Assessment and Cleanup teams from AZ, UT/ID, CA & NM responded.
2. Chainsaw training was held at Inlow Baptist Camp near Estancia, NM. NMBDR provided a feeding team.
3. New and experienced NMBDR volunteers traveled to Santa Fe to assist with the Mission of Mercy Free Dental Clinic.
JUNE
Cleanup volunteers responded to Claremore, OK after an EF3 tornado did widespread damage.
JUNE-AUGUST
A Region 1 management team and NMBDR volunteers along with volunteers from TX, HI, AZ, and OK worked out of FBC Ruidoso to cleanup fire and flood damage.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
Cleanup volunteers responded to Morgan City, LA after Hurricane Francine damaged properties in LA and TX.
Following Hurricane Helene which caused devastation in FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, and WV on Sept. 26, the Florida State Director asked Region1 to support their site in Live Oak, FL. NM flew two cleanup teams, and feeding support team who were joined by the cleanup team in LA when that response ended.
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
Following a 500 year flood in Roswell, NM on October 20, NMBDR set up recovery operations for flood recovery at First Baptist Church. Teams from TX, OK, AZ, CO, WY, and CA joined our NMBDR volunteers for over a month to help those who had lost everything.
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Remote Area Command (RAM)
Free Dental/Vision Clinic
Gallop, NM
3/14-16 2025
Thank you NMBDR volunteers who responded to Gallop, NM to assist with registration, parking, security, and to provide onsite meals for the doctors, technicians, and local volunteers who came from all across the country to provide free dental and vision services for those who can't afford it. Also, thanks to our BCNM Missions Leader who delivered and brought home the Quick Response Kitchen.
NMBDR DEPLOYMENT ARCHIVES
2023
DECEMBER - Bethel Baptist Church, Deming, NM
NMBDR Fire Recovery volunteers and church members, led by Don Davis removed debris and prepared the sanctuary for restoration. A candle was left burning in sanctuary causing heavy damage at the Bethel Baptist Church, Deming.
DECEMBER - Foothills Fellowship Church, Albuquerque, NM
NMBDR Childcare volunteers led by Cricket Pairett provided childcare for preschoolers for the Asian Christmas Music Festival.
OCTOBER /NOVEMBER - Clovis, NM
Repairs and upgrades made at the Sandia Baptist Church was led by Don Davis, NMBDR volunteers and area church volunteers.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER /NOVEMBER - Corrales, NM
A joint effort of local churches, community members and an NMBDR Chain Saw Team ministered to an elderly couple in Corrales, NM who were unable to clean up dead and downed trees on their property.
OCTOBER - Cloudcroft, NM
Don Davis headed up a joint effort of NMBDR volunteers and church members from across the state to make alterations and repairs at Sivells Baptist Camp in Cloudcroft. A small feeding team of NMBDR volunteers fed the workers.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER - Maui, HI
NMBDR sent 3 recovery teams (20 volunteers) to Maui starting September 24 and ending in the early morning hours of November 10. They helped homeowners recover personal property after August wildfires destroyed over 1800 hundred homes.
SUMMER MONTHS
NMBDR volunteers prepared meals for campers at Inlow Baptist Camp in the Monzano Mountains.
JULY
Two Recovery teams deployed to FBC Salpulpa, OK in response to widespread wind damage.
JUNE
-- Quick Response Kitchen (QRK) deployed to Rotan, TX in response to a tornado incident.
-- Shower Trailer deployed to Tinian, NM to support a GA/FBC, Santa Fe rebuild team finishing work on the burned Fellowship Hall at Tinian Baptist Church.
-- Replaced fascia at Mesa Valley Baptist Church, Albuquerque.
MAY
-- Chain Saw training, Sivells Baptist Camp, Cloudcroft.
-- Remodeled the bathroom in the FBC Church Parsonage in Springer, NM.
-- Remodeled the building for the 2nd NM Baptist Children's Home in Estancia, NM.
-- QRK provided lunch for The Rock at Noonday homeless ministries in Albuquerque.
-- Repaired and replaced damaged rafters and remodeled the restrooms at Mountain View BC, Albuquerque.
-- Conducted Serve-Safe for Managers course at BCNM.
APRIL
-- NMBDR Annual Meeting and Celebration, FBC, Rio Rancho, NM.
-- Repaired a blown-down fence for an invalid senior citizen in Ruidoso, NM.
MARCH
-- QRK deployed to Las Vegas, NM to support the Mission of Mercy (MOM) free dental and health clinic.
-- QRK deployed to Sandia Baptist Church in Albuquerque for the State Evangelism Conference.