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Los Alamos/White Rock voluntary evacuation

Posted by Steve Smith on Jun 27, 2011; 3:37am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Los-Alamos-White-Rock-voluntary-evacuation-tp6518791.html

Here is some live info on the LasConchas fire/LosAlamos-WR evacuation:

http://www.skipajarito.com/webcamtop.php
http://tunein.com/tuner/?StationId=35136&

As bad as it looks, the fire is not as threatening as it looks (perhaps)... the Cerro Grande burn left some pretty good firebreaks... It *was* declared by the USFS to be the highest priority fire in the nation... probably because of the *consequences* if parts of LANL were to go up.

It apparently started at 1 PM was at 400 acres by late afternoon and has apparently bloomed to 5000 acres...

We've been smelling smoke off and on at our house at Otowi Bridge and at 8 PM there were "baked" pine needles raining lightly on us...  nothing threatening, but almost as ominous as the imagery.

From my remembrance of 2000, I expect a big need if things get out of hand will be for pet evacuation handling.

- Steve

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