A drought-driven wildfire has destroyed 166 homes in northern New Mexico and is threatening hundreds more as fierce winds fan flames towards mountain villages, local officials said.
Thousands of residents were on standby to evacuate amid fears a Friday wind storm would push the blaze into communities in the Mora Valley, around 40 miles northeast of Santa Fe.
Heaps of metal are all that are left of homes burned along road 94 into Mora, where evacuees have fled a blaze that has burned with a speed and ferocity no one can remember in these farming settlements long accustomed to wildfires. "Pack your bags; make sure you have your loved ones close," Mora County Under Sheriff Americk Padilla told the briefing.
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