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NYT: Local fire chief says Los Alamos wildfire is entirely uncontained and highly unpredictable

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:38 pm ET
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Los Alamos Laboratory Is on Alert for a Wildfire, New York Times, June 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm EDT:

[...] fire chief for Los Alamos County, Doug Tucker [...] emphasized that the blaze — 44,000 acres had burned as of Monday morning — was still entirely uncontained and highly unpredictable. [...]

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:38 pm ET
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9 comments to NYT: Local fire chief says Los Alamos wildfire is entirely uncontained and highly unpredictable

  • FML
    June 27, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    This website should be changed from ENEnews to ELEnews.


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  • charlie3
    June 27, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    That actually made me chuckle. You have a good sense of (dark) humor!


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  • dark_horizon
    June 27, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    or the slogan changed “Enenews – Documenting the final days of the USA”


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  • bincbom
    June 27, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Note the manifest incompetence.

    Airplanes that can’t fly in wind? Fire crews who don’t know how to deal with radiological issues?

    Obviously, LANL is COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for this wildfire. And the threat of wildfire is the most obvious one to prepare for there. And Los Alamos is the nation’s “pre-eminent nuclear research facility?”

    Who needs badass turbanned “islamo-fascists” when one doofus with a match can create a disaster like this??

    SHAME ON LANL AND THE US GOVT. FOR BEING SO UNPREPARED!!


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  • Tacomagroove
    June 27, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    anyone got pics they can link? media, ect?


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  • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky
    June 28, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Albuquerque KRQE TV said the battle tonight is to
    ideally use the Pajarito Ski area, on a NE facing
    canyon wall, as a blocking series of lines. stopping it
    at the ski area keeps the town of Los Alamos from
    a down-canyon wind-driven fire.
    The Southeast Lip of the Valles Caldera had big trees
    along the ridge crowning-out and throwin embers
    a scary long ways….


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  • radegan
    June 28, 2011 at 8:03 am

    Fires in windy, dry, hilly areas are so fast and fed by all those desert plants that store moisture as oil. Once I turned left off Sunset Blvd in LA and went down the street away from the hills. As I turned, I saw a little flash in my mirror, on the hill, maybe a mile behind me. Two blocks later, the whole hillside was aflame. Scary stuff. Then add plutonium. Ave Hades.


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