New Mexico villages evacuate as fires burn uncontrolled in US southwest

New Mexico declares emergency as wind-driven wildfires destroy multiple homes and force hundreds to flee mountain villages in the parched US southwest state

Destructive fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger.

The blaze was the most destructive of nearly two dozen in the US Southwest and raised concerns the region was in for a long, brutal fire year. "Many people have lost everything," New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham told a briefing on Saturday.

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