Los Alamos Fire: Crews Battle NM Fire, Which Pushes Into Canyon
Associated Press
June 30th, 2011
An erratic northern New Mexico wildfire grew larger Thursday — pushing north while also creeping into a canyon that descends into Los Alamos — as fire officials remained hopeful that they could halt the spread of the blaze before it reached town.
Los Alamos County Fire Chief Doug Tucker noted that conditions in the area are so dry that the fire, which had charred nearly 145 square miles, was burning downed trees that were scorched in the huge Cerro Grande fire in 2000.
“We’re seeing fire behavior that I’ve never seen before,” Tucker said.
The fire also burned through moisture-rich aspen trees above Los Alamos, allowing the fire to push into a canyon that descends from that mountain into town and runs past the old Manhattan Project site, where the first atomic bomb was developed during World War II. That site is not on the property of the nearby Los Alamos nuclear lab.
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