A few nice breaking news images I found:
Fire news, information and media…

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Trying to get latest information is keeping residents glued to news sources. Here’s what I’ve found for sources and also the latest info… –
Wallow Fire in AZ as of 6/26 is now in NM, 80% contained, largest fire in AZ history, 538,048, burning since May. Smoke has been hanging over SF all June.
Pacheco Fire 9 miles n of Santa Fe started 6/18, is 10% contained and 9,300 acres burned, two miles north of SF ski basin. SF watershed threatened.
Los Conchas fire broke out 6/27 12 miles sw of Los Alamos at 1:00 pm. Flames and smoke visible, fire grew to point of threatening LA and voluntary evacuations started at 7:00 pm. 5,000 acres burned within first 12 hours. In a little more than 24 hours (by 2:30 pm) it was scary-big, up to 50,000 acres, high winds kicking back in. 70 sq miles. By today it is sad and depressing: 6/29 – 95 square miles — about 60,000 acres+, one mile from Los Alamos. The city was evacuated yesterday. High winds, red flag dry conditions are fueling fires. Las Alamos citizens are reliving the trauma of the **Cerro Grande** Fire in 2000 which grew to 48,000 acres. This Las Conchas fire grew past that in the first 24 hours. The entire area is shell shocked, stunned and sad. Fire chief, quoted on KOAT today, said it could easily grow to 100,000 acres.
Trying to get latest information is keeping residents glued to news sources. In the fires in the early 2000s the Santa Fe New Mexican had blogs with citizen reporters giving the newest information. Twitter… Stacey Matlock with the New Mexican is one to follow. Here are good tags:
#conchasfire #conchas #LosAlamosFire #NMFire
Official sites:
Website Info: www.inciweb.org or www.nmfireinfo.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/T1SWIMT
Best information is the KOAT Channel 7 News blog for the fire: livewire.koat.com/Event/Live_Updates_Las_Conchas_Fire_Bur…
FIRE WATCH:
livewire.koat.com/Event/Live_Updates_Las_Conchas_Fire_Bur…
nmfireinfo.wordpress.com/
www.inciweb.org/
www.inciweb.org/state/32/
Links:
Las Conchas fire time lapse www.youtube.com/watch?v=mju9oYwI36c
www.flickr.com/photos/garret/
www.flickr.com/photos/dougsgraphics/
www.flickr.com/photos/snowpeak/
www.flickr.com/photos/18582873@N03/
www.skipajarito.com/webcamtop.php (fire hit there last night – offline)
twitter.com/#!/search/%23nmfireinfo
twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23nmfire
twitter.com/#!/peakwx
Pacheco Firefighters photos
azcw2.imtcenter.net/main/ViewImageGallery.aspx?GalleryID=…
Timelapse photo video Pacheco
video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-ash4/232149/196/2128008724857_5…
Paul Douglas Weather Blog — a meteorologist from a whole different part of the country but he adds a lot of interesting information on weather patterns and changes, especially pertaining to our new normal – these wicked extremes.
pauldouglasweather.blogspot.com/
This article was concerning as local news has nothing about radiation or nuclear waste concerns. Friends say they are tired of smoke, they are taking in evacuees, they are trying to get latest information on fire, safety, they are saddened and depressed.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/27/ap/business/main200748…
UPDATE
The social media sites, especially twitter, were the feet on the ground best news updates throughout the fires. Twitter journalists: GadiRoget jeremyjojola StaciMatlock
Links to share
vanderlinden.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/190/fire-on-the-…
www.lasconchas.lanl.gov/index.html
how can this be the same person?

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so this week we have been losing sleep and wondering what the hell happened.
if you are in tampa, you’ve seen my daughter’s father on the news. while we aren’t together anymore he’ll always have a fondness in my heart for the little person he gave me.
i had to post this to remind myself and to remind everyone that crime involves humans. we villainize our criminals so much we forget that they have lives that exist beyond, before, after the crime is committed.
i’m not excusing what he did at all!!! he should be punished again but he also needs help.
my heart goes out to everyone. to the woman’s family he tore apart, to his family who is heart broken again, to his daughter.
my daughter, who has NO idea what to think and is basically just trying to forget him. i can’t blame her but it has to hurt.
so my plea is this. think of tracy, chip, sandra, jane, ethan, cyndy…everyone affected and try for some empathy.
i maybe away for a while, or not this is my therapy. we’ll see.
what happened.
‘cnn breaking news: barack obama elected president’

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brooklyn, 11/04/08