LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – A wildfire that has been chewing up thousands of acres of land every day in New Mexico grew larger Thursday as fire officials remained hopeful that they could halt the spread of the blaze before it reached the town of Los Alamos and its vaunted nuclear lab.
Firefighters seemed to be holding their own in the key fronts near the lab and town but saw the blaze flare up in isolated areas to the north. Their efforts on Thursday night in containing the fire in the face of powerful winds and the possibility of dry lightning will go a long way toward determining whether Los Alamos and the lab were in danger.
“Today is a good day for parts of this fire. It’s a bad day for other parts of this fire. Our hearts go out to the folks that are suffering the bad part,” Los Alamos County
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