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Residents in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso were told to immediately flee Monday because of a wildfire that was discovered west of town that morning and grew to more than 5,000 acres by the end of the day, officials said. Immediate mandatory 'go' evacuation for the Village of Ruidoso.
The South Fork Fire was discovered at around 9 a.m. Monday on the Mescalero Reservation west of the village of more than 7,000, and by 11:30 p.m. it had grown to an estimated 5,252 acres.
Fire growth has been rapid with extreme fire behavior," the division said.
As of Tuesday morning, the South Fork Fire spanned 13,921 acres and was still 0% contained.
Another fire, the Salt Fire, is also burning across 4,876 acres in the Mescalero Reservation, Otero County, and southwest of Ruidoso, and is 0% contained.
No deaths appear to have been reported as of Monday night. The number of structures lost was listed as unknown on government incident websites, but multiple structures were threatened.
Mary Lou Minic knew there was a fire in the area, but not how serious the danger was. She was among those now safe at an at an evacuation center in Roswell Monday night.
Hot ash from the fire was falling in Alto, a community north of Ruidoso, Ruidoso's government said. Part of U.S. Highway 70 near the reservation was closed, it said.
Tropical storm Alberto lashed into Mexico’s Gulf Coast Thursday, bringing heavy rain and flooding to parts of Mexico and southern Texas but causing damage. Alberto, the first named storm of what is expected to be a busy Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall early Thursday near the port of Tampico. It weakened rapidly to a tropical depression as it moved inland where it was expected to dissipate. Millions of people were under flood warnings as the large storm brought rain to northeastern Mexico and battered the Texas Gulf Coast. At least three people were killed in the Mexican state of Nuevo León on Wednesday, according to local media reports. One teenager drowned in a river and two others were electrocuted crossing a pond where a live cable was hanging. “Unfortunately, three deaths that could have been avoided,” Nuevo León Gov. Samuel García said in a television interview. “There’s a reason why classes were suspended. This isn’t ordinary rain, it’s a tropical cyclone.” While causing some localized flooding, the storm also brought much-needed rain to a region of Mexico that has been hit by severe drought. The good news is that the reservoirs are filling up,” García said. Nuevo León’s capital city, Monterrey, a regional industrial hub, has suffered major water shortages in recent years because of the drought. Maximum sustained winds were around 45 miles an hour when Alberto made landfall, and reported damage was minimal. Mexico’s state electric company, CFE, said the storm knocked out power to nearly 300,000 users in five states, including Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Veracruz. Service had been restored to around half Thursday afternoon.
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