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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Barry Kennedy with the Blue Ridge Hot Shot team watches to make sure the fire does not
cross the creek in Santa Clara Canyon.
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Homes in west Los Alamos are engulfed in flames as a controlled burn set by the National Park Service last week to
clear brush at nearby Bandelier National Monument spread into the town of Los Alamos Wednesday, May 10,
2000. The fire forced the evacuation of all 18,000 residents in the area best known as the site of America's most
storied nuclear laboratory. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 11 10:05 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Homes in west Los Alamos are engulfed in flames as a controlled burn set by the National Park Service last week to
clear brush at nearby Bandelier National Monument spread into the town of Los Alamos Wednesday, May 10,
2000. The fire forced the evacuation of all 18,000 residents in the area best known as the site of America's most
storied nuclear laboratory. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 11 10:05 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
White Rock, N.M., residents make the slow journey out of town after officials called for evacuation in the middle of
the night on Thursday May 11, 2000, as flames and smoke from a wild fire spread into Los Alamos and closer to
neighboring communities. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 11 10:35 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Los Alamos National Laboratories, center left, in Los Alamos, N.M., is surrounded by smoke from the an advancing fire
early Thursday morning, May 11, 2000. The town of Los Alamos is to the right of the lab. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
- May 11 10:45 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Firefighters try to save a house from the same demise as its neighbor in west Los Alamos, N.M., as the Cerro Grande
fire spread into the town Wednesday, May 10, 2000. A blaze that had been set to clear brush but raged out of control
over the weekend spread into Los Alamos and burned dozens of homes Wednesday. The fire forced the evacuation of
all 18,000 residents. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 11 4:55 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Smoke rises above a portion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. Thursday afternoon, May
11, 2000. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos,
burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine
Thompson)
- May 11 8:05 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Cliff Hawley, who grew up in Los Alamos, N.M., came back Thursday, May 11, 2000, to help rescue animals trapped
by fires in the area. Hawley, who now lives in Santa Fe, remembers the big fire that destroyed much of the town in the
'50s. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 11 5:55 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Smoke continues to fill the sky as houses sit empty in Los Alamos, N.M., Thursday, May 11, 2000. Driven by dry gusty
winds of more than 50 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning up to 400
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homes (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 11 6:00 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
This is a Landsat 7 satellite true color image of the area around Los Alamos, New Mexico taken Tuesday May 9, 2000.
This image was taken 427 miles from space through its sensor called the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+).
Evident within the imagery is a view of the ongoing Cerro Grande fire near the town of Los Alamos and the Los
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Alamos National Laboratory. (AP Photo/NASA)
- May 11 7:45 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Smoke rises above a portion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. Thursday afternoon, May
11, 2000. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos,
burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine
Thompson)
- May 11 8:05 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
As smoke darkens the sky, a civilian security patrol guards a road into the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los
Alamos, N.M. Thursday afternoon, May 11, 2000. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to
block in abandoned Los Alamos, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic
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bomb was built.. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 11 8:40 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A sky crane helicopter pulls away from a cloud of smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air from a wildfire in Los
Alamos, N.M. Thursday afternoon, May 11, 2000. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to
block in abandoned Los Alamos, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb
was built.. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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- May 11 8:40 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
The burned-out remains of a house smolders as smoke from the continuing wildfire fills the valley behind it, Thursday
afternoon, May 11, 2000 in Los Alamos, N.M. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to
block in abandoned Los Alamos, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic
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bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 11 9:00 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
As smoke darkens the sky, civilian security officers direct passersby away from a road into the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. Thursday afternoon, May 11, 2000. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire
rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town
where the atomic bomb was built.. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 11 9:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
The fire danger level is displayed on a sign in front of a downtown Los Alamos, N.M., fire station as wildfire rages in the
background Thursday, May 11, 2000. The wildfire first reached Los Alamos on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of the
entire town, and exploded in size from 3,700 acres to 18,000 on Thursday. (AP Photo/Neil Jacobs)
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- May 11 10:50 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Manuel Joseph of the Chamita, N.M., Fire Department hoses down some hot spots on one of the homes destroyed by
fire in Los Alamos, N.M., Thursday, May 11, 2000. Driven by swirling wind of up 55 mph, fire rolled from block to
block in evacuated Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their foundations. (AP Photo/Neil
Jacobs).
- May 11 11:05 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A huge forest fire threatens the Los Alamos National Laboratory as high winds sweep the northern New Mexico area
Thursday. Hundreds of homes and thousands of acres have been destroyed by the week-long blaze. (Rick
Wilking/Reuters)
- May 12 7:42 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
The wreckage of a home continues to smolder Friday morning, May 12, 2000, as another stands untouched behind
after a wildfire tore through the neighborhood a day earlier. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled
from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the
town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 12 10:10 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Blocks of houses sit empty Friday, May 12, 2000, destroyed by the fires that roared through Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Slackening wind and increased humidity today gave firefighters a boost as they struggled to hold the line against a fire
that destroyed 280 homes and forced 25,000 people from the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/J. Pat
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Carter)
- May 12 11:30 AM ET
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One home stands in the middle of other houses that were burned to the ground by the Cerro Grande fire in the northwest
part of Los Alamos, N.M. Friday, May 12, 2000. The town was evacuated Wednesday when the fire, set by the National
Park service at nearby Bandalier National Monument, jumped fire lines and roared into the town. (AP Photo/Jake
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Schoellkopf)
- May 12 11:50 AM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A police car drives on Friday, May 12, 2000, past a row of homes that were burned to the ground in Los Alamos, N.M.
The fire was set May 4 by the National Park Service to clear brush near Bandelier, but raged out of control in the dry,
windy conditions. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
- May 12 12:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
All that remains standing of this home Friday, May 12, 2000, is the chimney in Los Alamos, N.M. Slackening wind and
increased humidity Friday gave firefighters a boost as they struggled to hold the line against a fire that destroyed 280
homes and forced 25,000 people from the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
- May 12 12:50 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Some houses were spared but others were burned to the ground by the Cerro Grande fire along this street in north Los
Alamos, N.M., as shown Friday, May 12, 2000. Slackening wind and increased humidity Friday gave firefighters a boost
as they struggled to hold the line against a fire that destroyed 280 homes and forced 25,000 people from the town where
the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
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- May 12 1:25 PM ET
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The Los Alamos fire slowly advances through the Santa Fe National Forest on Friday creating a smoke plume completely
covering the town. Winds were much lower than in the previous few days giving hope that firefighters will finally be
able to bring the fire under control. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
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- May 12 2:35 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A huge forest fire threatens the Los Alamos National Laboratory as high winds swept the northern New Mexico area Thursday.
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Hundreds of homes and thousands of acres have been destroyed by the week-long blaze. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 12 2:42 PM ET
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New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson (L) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director James Lee Witt
examine a home gutted by fire in Los Alamos Thursday. Firefighters have battled the blaze for a week but have been
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unable to stop its spread into the town of Los Alamos, destroying at least 100 homes. (Michael Caulfield/Reuters)
- May 12 2:42 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A huge forest fire threatens the Los Alamos National Laboratory as high winds sweep the northern New Mexico area Thursday.
Hundreds of homes and thousands of acres have been destroyed by the week-long blaze. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
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- May 12 2:42 PM ET
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Forest Firefighters from the Raham Navaho Agency perform mop-up work in a burned-out forest Friday morning, May
12, 2000, near Los Alamos, N.M. The team of 20 has been working 12-16 hour days on the fire for six days. Driven
by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning
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- May 12 3:20 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Forest firefighter squad boss Erickson Begay, right, returns a water bottle to the pack of a fellow firefighter during a
brief break from mop-up work in a burned-out forest Friday morning, May 12, 2000, near Los Alamos, N.M.. The team
of 20 from the Ramah Navaho Agency perform has been working 12-16 hour days on the fire for six days. Driven by
swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores
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of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 12 3:35 PM ET
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Los Alamos Fire Dept. battalion chief Mark Sandoval, center, explains the plan to attack a wildfire Friday, May 12, 2000.
Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday,
burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine
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Thompson)
- May 12 3:45 PM ET
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Christy Conner, left, Terry Coggeshall, on computer, and Linda McClelland try to call up the website by Los Alamos
county which will display the addresses of homes destroyed or damaged by the Cerro Grande fire at the Santa Fe High
School shelter run by the Red Cross in Santa Fe, N.M., on Friday May 12, 2000. Conner lives in Los Alamos' northern
community that was hit by the fire as it raged through the western side of town. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 12 5:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Lt. Roger Gish, of the Grants, N.M., Fire Department, watches as his men fight a house fire in Los Alamos Friday, May
12, 2000. The men were trying to dose the final hot spots in the house that was destroyed Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. pat
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Carter)
- May 12 5:00 PM ET
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Indian pottery sits on top of car, Friday, May 12, 2000 outside a house that was destroyed by fire that swept through Los
Alamos, N.M. The residents had intended to take the pottery out with them when they evacuated their home. (AP
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Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 12 5:00 PM ET
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Mark Burnett, left, and Leo Massey, members of the Fort Apache, New Mexico Hotshots fire team rest as they fight
a fire near Los Alamos Friday, May 12, 2000. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 12 5:10 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Smoke from a wildfire rises from a valley behind the Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday afternoon, May 12,
2000, in Los Alamos, N.M. Driven by swirling winds of up to 60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned
Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was
built. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 12 6:45 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, right, answers questions with Sec. of Interior Bruce Babbitt during a news
conference on the Cerro Grande wildfire Friday, May 12, 2000, in Los Alamos, N.M. Driven by swirling winds of up to
60 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their
foundation in the town where the atomic bomb was built. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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- May 12 7:00 PM ET
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A house burned down to its foundation is still smoldering on the west side of the town of Los Alamos, Thursday.
The fire has destroyed or damaged up to 400 houses in the area. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 12 8:35 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Paula Olson hugs her son Thomas after finding out that she lost her home to the fire in Los Alamos, N.M.,
Friday, May 12, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
- May 12 9:40 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Volunteers deliver food to a high school gymnasium in Pojoaque, N.M., for evacuees of the Los Alamos fire
Friday, May 12, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
- May 12 9:45 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Los Alamos police officer Randy Foster stands in the middle of what was his home, a two story condo, early
Saturday, May 13, 2000 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Foster thinks that his working 12 hour shifts is helping him
to cope with the fire. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 13 10:55 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A helicopter carrying water heads for the forest fire still raging north of the town of Los Alamos Saturday. An army
of 1,400 firefighters, aided by helicopters and airplanes dumping water, battled on Saturday to contain a massive
forest fire that forced thousands from their homes and threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's
top nuclear research facility. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 13 2:28 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
The famous Zuni Indian firefighters arrive at the Pajarito ski area west of Los Alamos to aid in forest fire fighting
efforts late Friday. An army of 1,400 firefighters, aided by helicopters and airplanes dumping water, battled on
Saturday to contain a massive forest fire that forced thousands from their homes and threatened the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, the nation's top nuclear research facility. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 13 2:28 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Residents of Los Alamos, N.M., displaced by a raging wildfire, line up behind tables as postal workers sort mail for them at
Pojoaque High School, in Pojoaque, N.M., Saturday, May 13, 2000. The blowtorch winds and searing heat that fed a raging
wildfire broke Friday, easing the threat to Los Alamos from a blaze that destroyed 260 homes, damaged the town's nuclear
weapons laboratory and forced 25,000 people to flee. The fire remained out of control in the nearby forests and canyons,
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- May 13 5:30 PM ET
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Carol Bowman sits in her tent, resting before going out to fight the fires near at a fire camp outside Espanola, N.M.,
Saturday, May 13 , 2000. She is one of the Indian Hot Shots crews working the fire near Los Alamos. (AP Photo/J. Pat
Carter)
- May 13 5:25 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Judy and Dick Opsahl, Red Cross volunteers and victims of the Cerror Grande Fire, visit their devastated home in Los
Alamos, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield, Pool)
- May 14 3:15 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
An unidentified victim of the Cerro Grande Fire in Los Alamos, NM, reacts to the devastation of his home Sunday, May
14, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield, Pool)
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- May 14 3:15 PM ET
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A family from Los Alamos, N.M., walks past national guardsmen into the Santa Fe N.M. national guard amory,
Sunday, May 14, 2000 to board buses for a tour of their home that was destroyed by fire earlier this week. (AP Photo/J.
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Pat Carter)
- May 14 3:05 PM ET
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A Red Cross worker talks with a young boy, Sunday, May 14, 2000 at the Santa Fe, N.M. national guard amory, before
the boy and his family toured Los Alamos to view their home that was destroyed by fire. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 14 3:05 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Residents of Los Alamos, N.M., wait at the national guard amory in Santa Fe, N.M., early Sunday, May 14, 2000, to
board buses for a tour of their homes that were destroyed by fire earlier this week. The Red Cross workers were giving
teddy bears out before the tours.
(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, Pool)
- May 14 2:25 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Women who lost their homes in Los Alamos, N.M., look at the teddy bears supplied by the Red Cross before they
left the Santa Fe, NM national guard amory Sunday, May 14, 2000 to view the remains of their homes, that were
destroyed by fire. (AP Photo/J. pat Carter)
- May 14 2:45 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A couple who lost their Los Alamos, N.M. home wait to board a bus at the Santa Fe, N.M. national guard amory
Sunday, May 14, 2000 for a tour of the fire damaged area. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 14 3:20 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A young victim of the Cerro Grande fire peers out the window of a school bus while touring devastated homes in Los
Alamos, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield, Pool)
- May 14 4:45 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Red Cross volunteer and victim of the Cerro Grande fire, Dick Opsahl visits his devastated home in Los Alamos,
N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield, Pool)
- May 14 4:55 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Kim Beebe gives a kiss to her daughter Shannon, 5, as they look over a snapshot following a Mother's Day luncheon at a
shelter in Pojoaque Pueblo, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. Beebe and her family of four live in Los Alamos, where their
home survived a wildfire that destroyed 260 others. The fire was still alive Sunday and had blackened a total of 42,000
acres. More than 1,000 firefighters were on the job.The danger to Los Alamos and neighboring White Rock had receded
Friday after the fire had destroyedhomes and threatened the high-security Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the
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nation's most important centers for nuclear weapons research. Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 14 5:10 PM ET
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Red Cross volunteer, and victim of the Cerro Grande Fire, Judy Opsahl takes a picture of her devastated home for
insurance purposes in Los Alamos, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield, Pool)
- May 14 5:15 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Deacon Don Lucero, center, applauds as women who are mothers gather around for a blessing at the altar of Our Lady of
Guadalupe Church in Pojoaque Pueblo, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. Invited to the mass were parishoners from nearby
Los Alamos and White Rock, whose towns have been evacuated for several days because of a wildfire. The fire was still
alive Sunday and had blackened a total of 42,000 acres. More than 1,000 firefighters were on the job.The danger to Los
Alamos and neighboring White Rock had receded Fiday after the fire had destroyed 260 homes and threatened the high57
security Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's most important centers for nuclear weapons research.
Sunday, May 14, 2000. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
- May 14 5:45 PM ET
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Syndi Hesch, of Los Alamos, N.M., wipes away tears during a mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Pojoaque Pueblo,
N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. Invited to the mass were parishoners from nearby Los Alamos and White Rock, whose towns
have been evacuated for several days because of a wildfire that destroyed 260 homes. Hesch's home was not burned in the
fire. (AP Photo/ElaineThompson)
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- May 14 6:40 PM ET
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Victims of the Cerro Grande fire tour their devastated homes in Los Alamos, N.M., Sunday, May 14, 2000. Made
refugees by fire, hundreds of evacuated residents of Los Alamos solemnly returned Sunday in convoys of yellow
school buses to the seared homes, blackened yards and still-smoking vistas of their abandoned town. (AP Photo/Michael
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Caulfield, Pool)
- May 14 7:45 PM ET
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Sarris McComb, a firefighter from Missoula, Mt., working with the Vale, Colo. hotshots, looks for hotspots on the line
Sunday, May 14, 2000, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Los Alamos fire, which started with a controlled burn and
has since consumed over 20,000 acres, is still out of control in certain areas. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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- May 14 7:55 PM ET
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A charred tree limb bears mute testimony to the intensity of the Los Alamos fire, seen near the fire line Sunday, May 14,
2000, near Los Alamos, N.M. In background, Anthony Gholson of the Vale, Colo., hotshots, monitors hotspots. The Los
Alamos fire, which started with a controlled burn and has since consumed over 20,000 acres, is still out of control in
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certain areas. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 14 8:05 PM ET
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The sun is seen through smoke and charred trees, the remnants of the Los Alamos fire seen near the fireline Sunday,
May 14, 2000, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Los Alamos fire, which started with a controlled burn and has since
consumed over 20,000 acres, is still out of control in certain areas. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 14 8:25 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
National Guardsmen and police check credentials of people entering Los Alamos, N.M., Monday, May 15, 2000. The
fire, which has consumed 44,323 acres, is 28 percent contained Monday and a U.S. Forest Service spokesman says the
weather is too unpredictable to allow for an estimate when full containment might be achieved. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 15 10:45 AM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Gregg Dempsey, director of the Radiation and Indoor Environments National Laboratory for the Environmental Protection
Agency, demonstrates two low volume air samplers Monday, May 15, 2000, in Espanola, N.M. The EPA has deployed
twenty such samplers in and around Los Alamos, N.M., to test the air for alpha, beta, and gamma radiation which may
have been released due to the Cerro Grande fire. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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- May 15 3:40 PM ET
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George Dilbeck, Las Vegas center director for the office of Radiation and Indoor Air for the Environmental Protection
Agency, removes an air filter sample from a gamma detector Monday, May 15, 2000, in Espanola, N.M. The EPA is
testing the air in and around Los Alamos, N.M., for alpha, beta, and gamma radiation which may have been released due
to the Cerro Grande fire. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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- May 15 3:50 PM ET
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Los Alamos, N.M., councilwoman Patricia Rogers wears a mask during a media conference updating information on the
Cerro Grande fire Monday, May 15, 2000, in Los Alamos. Rogers wears the mask to aid her asthma condition, which is
aggravated by smoke from the fire. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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- May 15 4:15 PM ET
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Blue Ridge fire fighting team Barry Kennedy rest while flames creep close to a creek that runs through Santa Clara
Canyon on tribal lands outside Los Alamos, NM Monday, May 15, 2000. Fire fighting crews were using natural
barriers such as the stream to contain the fire. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 15 6:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Blue Ridge fire fighting team Barry Kennedy rest while flames creep close to a creek that runs through Santa Clara
Canyon on tribal lands outside Los Alamos, NM Monday, May 15, 2000. Fire fighting crews were using natural barriers
such as the stream to contain the fire. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
- May 15 6:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A tanker plane drops fire retardant onto a forest fire still raging near Los Alamos, Saturday. An army of 1,000
firefighters on the ground and in the sky struggled on Saturday to contain a wind-driven forest fire that forced
thousands of people from their homes, caused $1 billion in damages and charred vast areas at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, the top U.S. nuclear research facility. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 15 6:42 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A sign welcomes back evacuees to Los Alamos, NM, Monday, May 15, 2000. Over 260 homes were destroyed
by the Cerro Grande fire. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
- May 15 8:55 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Kim and Bill Starkovich smile as they visit their bedroom for the first time since the Cerro Grande fire forced
their evacuation last week on Monday, May 15, 2000 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The fire, which started with
a controlled burn, has since consumed over 44,323 acres, and destroyed or damaged over 400 homes. (AP
Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 15 8:30 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Kurt Duerre waters his lawn upon returning home for the first time since the Cerro Grande fire forced the evacuation
of his family last week on Monday, May 15, 2000 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The fire, which started with a
controlled burn, has since consumed over 44,323 acres, and destroyed or damaged over 400 homes. (AP Photo/Ben
Margot)
- May 15 9:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A forest fire still rages through the Santa Fe National Forest bordering the destroyed western side of Los
Alamos (upper right) Monday. More than 260 homes were lost in the blaze, now covering over 44,000 acres.
(Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 16 1:35 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Smoke settles in a canyon behind the main bnuilding of the Los Alamos, N.M.,
National Laboratory, Tuesday, May 16, 2000. The Cerro Grande fire burned a part
of the lab grounds and also destroyed more than 220 structures and
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leaving 405 families homeless.
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Mike Butler flashes a victory sign to a passing firefighter after arriving back in his
Los Alamos, N.M., home Tuesday,
May 16, 2000.
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A freshly painted rock greets arriving residents of White Rock, N.M., shortly after they were allowed to return after
being evacuated several days earlier, to their town Sunday, refers to nearby Los Alamos, which lost 260 homes in a
wildfire that burned through the area.
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Art Morse sits and reads a newspaper in a Los Alamos, N.M., donut shop Tuesday, May 16, 2000. Fire roared into Los
Alamos last week, destroying more than 220 structures and leaving 405 families homeless. All 11,000 residents of Los
Alamos were evacuated but authorities reopened most of town May 15. Others in photo are unidentified. (AP Photo/J. 78
Pat Carter)
- May 16 12:00 PM ET
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Jerry Kindsfather stands in his food store in Los Alamos, N.M., Tuesday, May 16, 2000, waiting for customers. Fire
roared into Los Alamos last week, destroying more than 220 structures and leaving 405 families homeless. All 11,000
residents of Los Alamos were evacuated but authorities reopened most of town May 15. Kindsfather was forced to throw
away $50,000 worth of food that had been in the freezers. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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- May 16 12:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos High School senior Noelle Stillman plans to cancel her high school graduation party in White Rock, N.M.,
Tuesday, May 16, 2000, in deference to the Cerro Grande fire victims who lost their homes. Fire roared into Los Alamos
last week, destroying more than 220 structures and leaving 405 families homeless. All 11,000 residents of Los Alamos
were evacuated followed by thousands more from White Rock and other nearby communities. Authorities reopened most
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of Los Alamos May 15. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
- May 16 12:05 PM ET
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Four vehicles destroyed by the Cerro Grande fire are shown Tuesday, May 16, 2000, in Los Alamos, N.M. Fire roared
into Los Alamos last week, destroying more than 220 structures and leaving 405 families homeless. All 11,000 residents
of Los Alamos were evacuated but authorities reopened most of town May 15. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
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- May 16 12:20 PM ET
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This aerial view of a destroyed neighborhood in the aftermath of the Los Alamos forest fire Monday. More than 260
homes were lost in the blaze. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 16 3:35 PM ET
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Intact houses (upper right) remain in a destroyed neighborhood in the aftermath of the Los Alamos forest fire on
Monday. More than 260 homes were lost in the blaze. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 16 3:35 PM ET
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A member of the National Guard, left, instructs unidentified victims of the Cerro Grande fire which residential locations
are safe to visit Tuesday, May 16, 2000, at Los Alamos High School in Los Alamos, N.M. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
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- May 16 4:40 PM ET
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A Crow Indian fire fighting crew from Montana mops up on the fireline in the bottom of Santa Clara Canyon Tuesday.
The most destructive wildfire on record in New Mexico was threatening a densely forested canyon on Tuesday, but the
worst appeared over for the fire-damaged Los Alamos National Laboratory where officials were preparing to reopen the
nation's largest nuclear lab. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) - May 16 5:07 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Firefighters from Utah mop up on the fireline in the bottom of Santa Clara Canyon, Tuesday. The most destructive
wildfire on record in New Mexico was threatening a densely forested canyon on Tuesday, but the worst appeared over for
the fire-damaged Los Alamos National Laboratory where officials were preparing to reopen the nation's largest nuclear
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lab. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
- May 16 5:07 PM ET
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Firefighters look for hot spots while on the line of the Cerro Grande fire Tuesday, May 16, 2000, near Los Alamos, N.M.
The fire, which started with a controlled burn, has since consumed over 46,000 acres and destroyed or damaged over
400 homes. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 16 5:10 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Firefighter Tyler Monroe, of Seipio, Ut., hauls fire hoses up from the Santa Clara Creek on the line of the Cerro Grande fire Tuesday,
May 16, 2000, near Los Alamos, N.M. The fire, which started with a controlled burn, has since consumed over 46,000 acres and
destroyed or damaged over 400 homes. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
- May 16 5:15 PM ET
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Firefighter Chris Jefferson-Medicinehorse, of Crow, Mt., uses his helmet to scoop water from the Santa Clara Creek while
on the line of the Cerro Grande fire Tuesday, May 16, 2000, near Los Alamos, N.M. The fire, which started with a
controlled burn, has since consumed over 46,000 acres and destroyed or damaged over 400 homes. (AP Photo/Ben
Margot)
- May 16 6:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Cruzita Trujillo, left, holds her granddaughter Lorinda while grandson Lukas looks at his former home, burned by the Cerro Grande fire,
in Los Alamos , NM, Wednesday, May 17, 2000. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to release a preliminary report on the
fire Thursday when he visits Los Alamos. While there, Babbitt could face the anger of some of the 405 families whose homes were
burned down.(AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
- May 17 6:35 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Gloria Brown, left, and her husband Tom visit their devastated home, burned by the Cerro Grande fire, in Los Alamos ,
NM, Wednesday, May 17, 2000. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to release a preliminary report on the fire
Thursday when he visits Los Alamos. While there, Babbitt could face the anger of some of the 405 families whose
homes were burned down.(APPhoto/Michael Caulfield)
- May 17 7:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Gloria and Tom Brown visit their devastated home, burned by the Cerro Grande fire, in Los Alamos, NM, Wednesday, May
17, 2000. Iterior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to release a report on the fire Thursday when he visits Los Alamos.
While there, Babbitt could face the anger of some of the 405 families whose homes were burned down.(AP Photo/Michael
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- May 17 8:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Fire Department Chief Doug MacDonald surveys Los Alamos Canyon Wednesday, May 17, 2000, where
fire funneled down into the town of Los Alamos, NM. MacDonald called for the evacuation of the town when the fire
jumped into the canyon threatening homes in Los Alamos. (AP Photo/Michael Caulfield)
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Las Vegas, N.M., fire crew members Patrick Apodaca, left, and Cliff Pekoc mop up part of the Cerro Grande fire in Santa Clara
Canyon on the Pueblo of Santa Clara, N.M., on Thursday, May 18, 2000. The National Park Service officials who started the
devastating Los Alamos fire did not follow proper procedures and did not have enough fire crews on hand to keep the blaze under
control, according to a preliminary investigation by the Interior Department. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
- May 18 6:00 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Dan DeBacker, right, sitting in the Canyon Bar and Grill in Los Alamos, N.M., Thursday, May 18, 2000, watches a
live broadcast of Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt's report on the investigation of the Cerro Grande fire.
DeBacker lost his home in the fire that raged through Los Alamos. At left is DeBacker's friend, Dan Richards, whose 95
home was spared. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)
- May 18 6:00 PM ET
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Sarah Olson, 15, left, embraces her mother's best friend Catherine Scarberry as they together learn that the Olson's
Los Alamos home has been destroyed by fire while the Scarberry's home has survived. At bottom is Scarberry's son
Ryan, 6. The two families learned the news at the Pojoaque High School where a relief center has been set up to aid
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those evacuated from Los Alamos and White Rock.
Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
Alicia Lopez sifts through what used to be her bedroom, looking for reminants of her doll collection during her first visit
to her Los Alamos, N.M., home Friday, May 19, 2000 since the Cerro Grande fire burned down several hundred homes
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last week. (APPhoto/Sarah Martone)
- May 19 9:30 PM ET
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Irma Sutphin, left, and her mother Alicia Lopez sift through the remains of their house looking for anything that
survived the Cerro Grande fire during their first visit home Friday, May 19, 2000, in Los Alamos, NM. (AP
Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 19 9:35 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
David Hemsing, left, 18, and his friend Dan Seitz, look through what was used to be the front door of Hemsing's
family home, Friday, May 19, 2000, during his first visit to the site in west Los Alamos, N.M., since the Cerro
Grande fire burned down several hundred homes in the town last week. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 19 9:40 PM ET
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Los Alamos Cerro Grande Fire
A doll's head rests on a wall Friday, May 19, 2000, in Los Alamos, N.M., of what used to be Alicia Lopez's
bedroom. Lopez collected doll's and search through the rubble of her burned-out Los Alamos home during her
first visit since the Cerro Grande fire burned several hundred homes last week. (AP Photo/Sarah Martone)
- May 19 9:50 PM ET
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Barry Kennedy with the Blue Ridge Hot Shot team watches to make sure the fire does not
cross the creek in Santa Clara Canyon.
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