Hundreds of households in the historic New Mexico city of Las Vegas were told to evacuate immediately on Monday as intense winds and bone-dry conditions fueled a huge wildfire burning on the outskirts of town.
The blaze, dubbed the Calf Canyon Wildfire, had scorched more than 103,000 acres , or more than half the area of New York City, as of Monday morning, according to U.S. Forest Service officials in New Mexico.
"It is extremely smoked out here. Lots of smoke and falling ash," Jesus Romero, the deputy county manager of San Miguel County, told Reuters in an interview. "The winds are starting to pick up now and we are starting to get a lot more wind." Several hundred households in the northwestern corner of the city were told to evacuate immediately on Monday morning, San Miguel County said in an alert.
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