Coverage dated May 1, 2022 to May 2, 2022

As a wildfire closes in, New Mexico residents prepare to flee

Headline from Delaware Public Media

Firefighting crews were battling to keep the fire in northern New Mexico, the largest fire burning in the U.S., from making another run across the state's drought-parched landscape.

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Reports & sources

11 articles, oldest first.

  1. Bowling Green Daily News

    As wildfire closes in, New Mexico residents prepare to flee (opens Bowling Green Daily News)

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    Bowling Green Daily News's feed description

    Wind-whipped flames are marching across more of New Mexico’s tinder-dry mountainsides, forcing the evacuation of area residents and dozens of patients from the state's psychiatric hospital as firefighters scramble to

  2. Delaware Public Media

    As a wildfire closes in, New Mexico residents prepare to flee (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    Delaware Public Media's feed description

    Firefighting crews were battling to keep the fire in northern New Mexico, the largest fire burning in the U.S., from making another run across the state's drought-parched landscape.

  3. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    N.M. residents set to flee wildfires (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's feed description

    LAS VEGAS, N.M. -- Wind-whipped flames raced across more of New Mexico's pine-covered mountainsides Monday, closing in on a town of 13,000 people where residents hurried to evacuate or clear brush from around their homes.

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