Firefighters scouted the drought-stricken mountainsides around a New Mexico village as they looked for opportunities to slow a wind-driven wildfire that a day earlier had burned at least 150 homes and other structures while displacing thousands of residents and forcing the evacuation of two schools.
Homes were among the structures that had burned, but officials on Wednesday did not have a count of how many were destroyed in the blaze that torched at least 6.4 square miles (16.6 square kilometers) of forest, brush and grass on the east side of the community of Ruidoso, said Laura Rabon, spokesperson for the Lincoln National Forest.
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/destructive-wildfires-rage-mexico-colorado-84074661
Photo: The McBride Fire burns in the heart of the village in Ruidoso, New Mexico, United States, April 12, 2022. (Reuters)
