Las Conchas Fire

For those of you who haven't followed the news for the past 2 weeks, Los Alamos was evacuated again after a roaring forest fire (Las Conchas) grew from 50 acres to 50,000 acres in less than a day. The residents of the "hill" had to evacuate for a week while White Rock did not have to evacuate.

This was the 2nd evacuation we had to go through in 11 years. It gets old fast. Luckily very few homes were lost this time and those that were were up in the Jemez Mountains.

The climate has been very dry this year (2011) and as of today, 7/11, we still haven't had any rain. The fire has now grown to 142,000 acres and has pretty much devastated the east end of the Jemez Mountains including part of the Valles Caldera. Very sad.