New Mexico Wildfire Burns Nearly 60 Homes

Firefighters worked in cooler, calmer weather on Saturday to clear lines around a blaze that has burned nearly 60 homes and more than 20 square miles in the mountains of central New Mexico. The authorities were able to confirm that 50 homes burned Wednesday in a fire caused by humans in the Manzano Mountains, southeast of Albuquerque. Nine homes burned earlier. The 50 homes, most in an area called Sherwood Forest, west of the community of Toreon, went up Wednesday after the fire jumped containment lines. The total was conducted Friday and Saturday when the ashes from the 13,790 acre fire had cooled enough to allow authorities in.