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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:47 AM Jun 2014

New Mexico wildfire rages through Native American reservation

Source: Reuters

New Mexico wildfire rages through Native American reservation
By Joseph Kolb
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:02am EDT


(Reuters) - A wind-whipped wildfire on the Navajo Reservation in northwest New Mexico raged for a fourth day on Monday, forcing the evacuation of sheep-herding residents in the Chuska mountains, officials said, but no injuries were reported.

The blaze, nicknamed the Assayii Lake Fire, has so far burned up more than 11,000 acres (4,452 hectares) of land and remains uncontained despite the deployment of hundreds of firefighters and aerial sorties, said Jacey McCurtain, president of the Crystal Chapter on the Navajo Reservation.

Efforts to fight the blaze, which erupted on Friday and is thought to have been caused by people, have been hampered by low visibility and winds of up to 42 miles per hour (68 km per hour) which have pushed it beyond a ridgeline, McCurtain said.

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Authorities sought to "protect culturally significant lands and historic sites to preserve traditional values", said Bea Day a New Mexico fire official, adding that the blaze had affected some of the reservation's prime grazing land.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/17/us-usa-new-mexico-wildfires-idUSKBN0ES0IC20140617?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401

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New Mexico wildfire rages through Native American reservation (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2014 OP
I hope they can contain it lovemydog Jun 2014 #1
It's gonna be a long hot summer (nt) malokvale77 Jun 2014 #2
11,000 acres burned, 50 people affected. Luckily the Navajo prefer to live spread out. We just FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #3
K&R DeSwiss Jun 2014 #4

FailureToCommunicate

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3. 11,000 acres burned, 50 people affected. Luckily the Navajo prefer to live spread out. We just
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 01:13 PM
Jun 2014

returned from New Mexico and withnessed two large wildfires burning in the distance, and the awful reminants of fires from the last several years, one of which destroyed swaths of the forests surrounding the amazing Gila Cliff Dwellings

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