Fire near plutonium-contaminated waste
Firefighters are battling to clear bone-dry brush from barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste three miles from the monster New Mexico blaze, set to become the largest in state history.
The Las Conchas Fire has charred nearly 93,000 acres of thick pine woodlands on the slopes of the Jemez Mountains since erupting on Sunday near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
'We're seeing fire behaviour we've never seen down here, and it's really aggressive,' Los Alamos County Fire Chief Douglas Tucker said, adding that earlier hopes of lifting evacuations in the area by this weekend had been dashed.
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The Las Conchas Fire has charred nearly 93,000 acres of thick pine woodlands on the slopes of the Jemez Mountains since erupting on Sunday near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
'We're seeing fire behaviour we've never seen down here, and it's really aggressive,' Los Alamos County Fire Chief Douglas Tucker said, adding that earlier hopes of lifting evacuations in the area by this weekend had been dashed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008649/Los-Alamos-wildfire-Residents-flee-firefighters-battle-blaze-near-nuclear-complex.html?ITO=1490