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All 29 people who had been unaccounted for following a pair of wildfires that have killed two people are accounted for, the mayor of the Village of Ruidoso said Wednesday. “All the folks that we had on the missing list is now at zero,” Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said at a community meeting about the South Fork Fire and Salt Fire.
The fires broke out on the Mescalero Apache Reservation on June 17, and then burned east, fueled by high temperatures and wind. The cause of the fires is under investigation. An estimated 1,400 structures have been affected, with approximately 500 homes believed to have been lost, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has said. Urban search and rescue teams, including 20 dogs trained to detect human remains, have done secondary searches of damaged structures.
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