Wildfire nears Los Alamos lab

well if it'sd not flooded it seems to be burning..if you look at the map it is mostly the center of the states..
where is the money coming from to help all this..????????????
thing is - it isn't..hell they never came thur for katrina displaced folks...and look at the oil spill
it's going to be interesting reading what is blamed for getting loose from this lab.
.i give it a month before we start to hear those stories


personally i think all these disasters are the earth giving fair warning where to get out of..


'Very, very big concern': Wildfire nears Los Alamos lab
Blaze burns within a mile of site where world's first atomic bomb was built, officials say

msnbc.com news services
updated 6/27/2011 4:53:09 AM ET 2011-06-27T08:53:09
Share Print Font: +-SANTA FE, N.M. — A wind-driven wildfire has forced the closure of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the evacuations of about 100 people in northern New Mexico, officials said early Monday.

U.S. Forest Service officials said that the fire had burned at least six square miles and was threatening buildings, power lines and natural gas lines. They said it was about one mile southwest of the government laboratory.

Lab officials has closed the facility and say all radioactive and hazardous materials were being protected. The site was founded during the Second World War to develop the world's first nuclear weapons.

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Los Alamos County authorities have issued voluntary evacuation orders for the towns of Los Alamos and White Rock. Residents from the rural towns of Cochiti Mesa and Las Conchas were evacuated after the fire started Sunday.

Smoke from the fire could be seen in Santa Fe, more than 30 miles to the southeast.

"We have homes and we have the labs, so it's a very, very big concern, not only locally but nationally and globally," said Lawrence Lujan, a spokesman for the Santa Fe National Forest. "This fire is very complex. We have a national type one team coming in because of the nature of the fire."

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New Mexico Governor Susanna Martinez toured the lab's emergency operations center late Sunday.


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Martinez has ordered the New Mexico National Guard to Los Alamos to provide support for the ongoing efforts to protect lives, property and critical infrastructure threatened by the fire.

"My administration will make every effort to provide support for local emergency response crews," she said.

'Key facilities'
The blaze continued to throw flames a half mile ahead of the fire pushed by high winds and hot dry conditions.

Bandelier National Monument has been evacuated, as have the communities of Cochiti Mesa and Las Conchas. Voluntary evacuations have been issued for Los Alamos and nearby community White Rock.

Jeff Berger, a spokesman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the fire was rapidly advancing but had not yet reached lab property.

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"Lab emergency crews have been dispatched across the lab ... to protect key facilities and materials," Berger said. "Protected areas include all hazardous and radioactive facilities and our proton accelerator and supercomputing centers."
Berger said the laboratory would be closed Monday for all activities and non-essential employees.

Fire crews are currently battling 41 large wildfires in the United States, which have torched more than 1.4 million acres, according to the Idaho-based National Fire Information Center.

Most of the active blazes are in the Southwest and Texas, where scant rainfall has created tinder-dry conditions.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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welll if ufo's monitor nuclear sites so that they don't go boom..los alamos looks like it should be
a prime location for ufo sightings

latest article in part:


The fire scorched part of the site known as the Tech Area, 49, which was used in the early 1960s for a series of underground tests with high explosives and radioactive materials. Lab officials said the fire was safely extinguished.

..Authorities said Monday night that radioactive and hazardous materials were safely beyond the fire's reach, and that efforts in recent years to clear the area of dry brush and other potential ground fuels had paid off in helping firefighters keep the blaze at bay.

However, the facility called in special teams to track readings from a network of 60 monitoring stations that measure levels of substances such as plutonium and uranium in the air "as a precaution," said lab director Charles McMillan.

"The health and safety of this community and our neighbors is our highest priority," he added.

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The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety said the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a low-level radiation dump site in southern New Mexico.

Lab spokesman Steve Sandoval declined to confirm that there were any such drums currently on the property. He acknowledged that low-level waste is at times put in drums and regularly taken from the lab to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project site in Carlsbad.

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I wouldn't take their denial on anything..