Crews move to 9,500-acre blaze in New Mexico

Thursday, May 2, 2002

MAYHILL, N.M. (AP) -- A man who started a wildfire in the Sacramento Mountains that had already burned more than 9,500 acres and destroyed at least 20 structures by Thursday committed suicide because he couldn't live with what happened, a sheriff said.

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