Largest active wildfire in US bears down on New Mexico mountain villages, triggering evacuations in another county as firefighters see no way to stop the blaze
Hundreds of homes and other structures have been destroyed by the fire and about 12,000 households have been told to evacuate.
In nearby Angostura, ranchers and second-home owners were told to flee, marking the first evacuations in Taos County, which like the rest of the fire zone is caught in a more than two-decade-long drought. "There's no good place with the fire behaviour and the wind we've been having to stop it anywhere in here, so we're going to have to protect all these homes as we go to the north," Todd Abel, a battalion chief with the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, told a briefing.The fire is destroying ancestral forests and watersheds used by Indo-Hispano villages for centuries for building materials, firewood and to irrigate high mountain pastures.
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