Daniel Encinias stands next to his camping trailer in a New Mexico evacuation area and says he will rebuild his home torched by the largest wildfire burning in the United States.
He just wants the U.S. Forest Service to pay for it. The USFS has confirmed that one of its controlled burns went out of control early last month and later merged with another fireRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comHe is among upwards of 10,000 evacuees from the fire that has torn through centuries-old villages in the Sangre de Cristo mountains 30 miles northeast of Santa Fe and burned the house Encinias had built from the ground up.
He, his wife, three children, four dogs and eight cats are crammed into the trailer at the Storrie Lake State Park where he plans to go ahead with his daughter's high-school graduation party. "You have a federal government who is certainly partially to blame for the situation we are in," Lujan Grisham said.
The fire in one of the poorest U.S. states is raging in two counties where household incomes are half the national average. Many of the lost homes are trailers on family land next to older adobe mud-brick homes, said Paula Garcia, who heads a state irrigation association.
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