The Atlantic Wire has a six strikingly beautiful photos from the Las Conchas Wildfire and Los Alamos.
Meanwhile, those still on duty at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been taking pictures of the disaster. This may seem out of place at first, but in the place where the first nuclear bombs were built and tested, a wildfire [may] just seem like a small scale disaster to Los Alamos. Either way, the photos are kind of stunning.
Meanwhile, the fire is 60,740 acres and zero contained. NM Fire Info
That’s about 95 square miles.
Is the smoke blowing toward Albuquerque?
Some is; it’s quite visible. The winds have been shifting from westerly to easterly to southerly as a front moved through. So far the smoke air quality here was much worse during the peak of the Arizona Wallow Wildfire even though it was 200 miles away and the Las Conchas Wildfire only about 50. There is another fire northeast of Santa Fe.