Thousands of residents of northern New Mexico villages flee as fierce winds drive the largest active US wildfire toward their drought-parched mountain valley
Burning since April 6, the fire has destroyed hundreds of properties and forced the evacuation of dozens of settlements in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Winds gusting over 40 mph on Sunday blew embers a 1.6 kilometres ahead of the blaze to start new fires as bulldozers carved fire breaks to protect the villages of Ledoux, Mora and Cleveland around 64 km northeast of Santa Fe. "Where are we supposed to run to, where do we go, this is where our livelihoods are," said Darlene Gallegos, a farmer and co-owner of Mora's country market, after police told her to close the store and flee the village of 1,000 settled in Spanish colonial times.
Those communities in the west of the city could be evacuated "in the near future," New Mexico Game and Fish official Shawn Carrell told a briefing.Crews bulldozed firebreaks to the north and west of the historic university town of 14,000 to protect ranches, rural houses and the United World College."This kind of keeps spinning around on us," said Incident Commander Dave Bales.
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