New Mexico residents prepare to flee as wildfire closes in
The fire is the largest burning in the US and is feeding on a drought-parched landscape.
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The fire is the largest burning in the US and is feeding on a drought-parched landscape.
LAS VEGAS, N.M. -- Wind-whipped flames raced across more of New Mexico's pine-covered mountainsides Monday, closing in on a town of 13,000 people where residents hurried to evacuate or clear brush from around their homes.
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Wind-whipped flames raced across more of New Mexico's pine-covered mountainsides on Monday, closing in on a town of 13,000 people where some residents hurried to pack their cars with belongings, others hustled to clear brush from around their homes, and police were called in to hel
Firefighting crews were battling to keep the fire in northern New Mexico, the largest fire burning in the U.S., from making another run across the state's drought-parched landscape.
Wind-whipped flames are marching across more of New Mexico’s tinder-dry mountainsides, forcing the evacuation of area residents and dozens of patients from the state's psychiatric hospital as firefighters scramble to keep new wildfires from growing