New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.
Hundreds of structures were lost in a growing number of wind-driven blazes across drought-stricken New Mexico, Lujan Grisham said Saturday.
Plumes of smoke rise from a pair of growing wildfires in northeast New Mexico on Friday, April 22, 2022 outside Las Vegas, N.M. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger.New Mexico as of Saturday had the most major wildfires burning of any state, though neighboring Arizona also had large fires that included one that burned 30 homes near Flagstaff on Tuesday.
With fires still burning and charred areas too dangerous to enter,"it's not safe for you or us to have a complete assessment to date," she said, indicating that the number of lost structures would rise. The merged fires burned some structures but no figures were available, said fire information officer Mike Johnson."They were able to save some structures and we know we lost other structures that we weren't able to defend."
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