State fire officials are investigating the possibility of preventing downed power lines from causing future wildfires.

With the Tres Lagunas and Thompson blazes said to be caused by power lines, officials are looking into exactly how the lines may have caused the fires and whether it is a widespread problem that needs to be addressed.

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“It's just a tinderbox out there,” said Gov. Susana Martinez. “When you have a very dead or dry tree and it just decides to collapse today, it may fall on a power line.”

The debate about more regulation or more oversight walks a fine line, but not much can be done if dead trees are simply knocking these lines down.

“I think there are already those rules and regulations out there,” said Martinez. “It's just a lot of distance within the forest. There's a lot of forest; you can see there are a lot of trees that are very dry.”