New Mexico fires force evacuations

Sunday, March 24, 2002

ALTO, N.M. -- Wind-whipped grass fires pushed into affluent residential areas in the pine-studded southern New Mexico mountains Saturday, burning at least 32 homes and forcing more than 1,300 residents to evacuate.

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