Climate Central: Weather conditions got the best of firefighters in New Mexico this week, as two wildfires that had been burning separately for more than a week merged and grew in size, destroying at least 12 homes, and burning more than 80,000 acres to date. The Whitewater-Baldy Fire Complex grew to a total of 82,252 acres on Thursday, according to Inciweb, a U.S. Forest Service wildfire coordination website. A highly trained "fire management team" was ordered to assume command of the fire complex this weekend,...
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