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This May 4, 2022 image courtesy of Laura Paskus shows the silhouette of a cross amid smokey skies where hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire burning in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the community of Las Vegas, New Mexico. (Laura Paskus via AP)

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Fire-ravaged New Mexico villages cling to faith, ‘querencia’
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-1:30PM , 252 Reads
Eileen Celestina Garcia raced down the mountain that overlooks her parents’ ranch home in northern New Mexico where friends and family have gathered for decades and where she has sat countless times among the stillness of the Ponderosa pines.
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Two packages sit in the driveway of the home that Jeanne and Mike Welnick owned outside Flagstaff, Ariz., on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

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Arizona wildfire forces fast decision: Fight or flee flames?
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Sun,05/01/22-1:03PM , 287 Reads
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — In a small enclave in northern Arizona where homes are nestled in a Ponderosa pine forest and tourists delight in camping, hiking and cruising on ATVs, high winds are nothing new.
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A wind-driven wildfire burns at the edge of U.S. 89 on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. An Arizona wildfire doubled in size overnight into Wednesday, a day after heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist and college town, ripping through two dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee. (Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun via AP)

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Crews brace for strong winds, explosive fire growth in West
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Thu,04/21/22-12:36AM , 252 Reads
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Firefighters fanned out across blackened landscape in Arizona’s high country, digging into the ground to put out smoldering tree stumps and roots as helicopters buzzed overhead with buckets of water to drop on a massive blaze.
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This Wednesday April 20, 2022, photo provided by Bill Wells shows his home on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., destroyed by a wildfire on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The wind-whipped wildfire has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes and animals. (Bill Wells via AP)

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Wind will be a force to reckon with on Southwest wildfires
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Wed,04/20/22-12:56AM , 242 Reads
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Fire managers across the Southwest are reckoning with strong winds that forecasters say could lead to explosive growth in wildfires this week. Hundreds of people were evacuated in numerous blazes that have scorched structures and signaled an early start to the fire season.
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