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New Mexico residents brace for extreme wildfire conditions | 2022-05-08 12:26:27

With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of this small northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy Saturday as their rural neighbors hunkered down amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.

More than 1,500 firefighters were on the fire lines at the biggest blaze east and northeast of Santa Fe, which grew another 8 square miles overnight to an area more than twice as large as the city of Philadelph

After a few days of calm that allowed some families who had fled wildfires raging in northeast New Mexico to return to their homes, dangerous winds picked up again Sunday, threatening to spread spot fires and complicate work for firefighters.

原本只是地表层杂草和树枝被烧着了，但因为刮风的作用，火焰很快扩大，把一整棵松树完全点着，连片的火焰迅速升腾起来。  央视记者 刘旭： 不到一分钟时间，一棵青葱的松树就被烧得只剩下枯黑的树干，附近的消防车在看到烟雾升起后，才迟迟赶来进行灭火。虽然没能及时控制火势，但消防人员还要给刚烧过的灰烬进行浇水，防止因为刮风，火苗再次燃烧起来，蔓延到更大的范围。  据消防官员介绍，目前在这片林场共有超过2100名消防人员�...