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By Andrew Hay and Adria Malcolm TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The United States' largest active wildfire bore down on New Mexico mountain villages on Tuesday, triggering evacuations in another county as firefighters saw no way to stop the blaze. Driven by gusting winds the fire reached a highway that is th...
Fast winds are complicating the fight against fires burning across northeast New Mexico. Wind gusts were as fast as 50 miles per hour on Sunday. That forced some firefighting aircraft to be grounded, taking away a key tool for battling the blazes. The area's largest rural town is Las Vegas, New Mexico, and it appears safe for now thanks to fire lines and other preparations. But the northern and southern ends of the fire are proving trickier to contain with the fast winds. The National Interagency Fire Center says more than 20,000 structures remain threatened.
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Strong, fast winds complicated work for firefighters in northeast New Mexico on Sunday as they battled two major blazes, though the rural area's major population center appeared to finally be safe from the worst danger.
Strong winds, high temperatures, and low humidity continued fanning the flames on Sunday of a devastating wildfire that has already scorched more than 275 square miles in Northern New Mexico.