Wildfires in New Mexico forced thousands to evacuate an entire town. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency and said she is deploying “every available resource” to control the situation.
More than 500 structures have been damaged in New Mexico wildfires that forced the evacuation of an entire town of more than 7,000 people, officials said Tuesday as the fires remained active and uncontained. The South Fork Fire broke out Monday morning on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, and what had been a blaze of around 360 acres was 13,921 acres by Tuesday morning, the New Mexico Forestry Division said. The Salt Fire has burned 4,876 acres.
'This fire is dangerous and fast moving,' McCarthy said at a news conference. 'The winds are strong. They're not quite at the red flag level, but they are close.' In Ruidoso, not everyone lives in the mountain town full-time, and around 5,000 people evacuated from there, she said. Most are staying with family and friends, and around 500 were in shelters in Roswell or at a center on the reservation, the state forester said.
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