The video embedded above shows back burns conducted yesterday (June 29) outside of Los Alamos National Labs. According to a press release dated June 29 found on inciweb:
Firefighters began setting "back burns" on the west side of New Mexico State Route 501 around mid-morning. Those operations were declared complete by evening. The burns were intended to remove available fuel from the Las Conchas Fire, which has consumed more than 60,000 acres on two sides of the 37-square-mile LANL site but only one acre of the Lab itself.
To see the rest of this press release go to this inciweb page.
As of late in the evening on June 29, the fire had grown to some 80,000 acres and is still at 3 percent containment. As for aircraft working the fire, inciweb reported that five helicopters are working the fire.
An ABC newsreport on yesterday's back burn operations may be found here and Los Alamos National Labs has posted some photos relating to the Las Conchas fire here, including a couple of photos of an Erickson AirCrane. Finally, Bill Gabbert of Wildfire Today reports on yesterday's back burn operations here; Bill's latest update (posted as I wrote this) on the fire may found here.
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