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Another small community was evacuated early Tuesday as a wildfire grew in the ponderosa and pinon pine forest of northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains.
Smoke from the fire, which had grown to 3,300 acres, could be seen at least 50 miles away in Albuquerque. The blaze destroyed four summer homes.
Fire information officers said crews had contained about 15 percent of the blaze by Tuesday morning after burning off fuel north of Fenton Lake State Park and working fire lines at night. Officials evacuated La Cueva’s 200 homes beginning at 6 a.m.
Meanwhile, the nation’s biggest wildfire this year, the Biscuit blaze on southwestern Oregon, passed the 500,000-acre mark Tuesday.
