The colossal wildfire tearing through forests east of Santa Fe, N.M., is now the largest fire in New Mexico’s history. The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire had burned 298,060 acres as of Monday and was 26 percent contained, officials said.
Monday evening that Biden had granted her request to make disaster unemployment assistance available to New Mexicans whose livelihoods were interrupted by the wildfires.More than 2,000 emergency workers are fighting the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire, which has destroyed hundreds of structures and forced evacuations across the region, including for the area surrounding Sipapu Ski Resort in Vadito, N.M.
With the record-breaking assessment coming Monday morning before the storms, it’s likely that the wildfire has swelled past 300,000 acres. The National Weather Service warned that “storms producing dry lightning and very little to no wetting rainfall will be an issue.”There was some rain, however, in Las Vegas, where residents spilled into streets and parking lots, embracing the rain and even the hail.on Facebook with a video of the rain and praying-hands emoji.of people cheering, raising their arms to the sky in the parking lot of a middle school turned evacuation center.
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