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MENACED BY FLAMES, NUCLEAR LAB PEERS INTO FUTURE OF WILDFIRE

Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn wildfire crept within a few miles of the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab — where assessing apocalyptic threats is a specialty and wildland fire is a beguiling equation.

Lighter winds last Friday (13) allowed for the most intense aerial attack on those flames west of Santa Fe as well as the biggest U.S. wildfire burning farther east, south of Taos.

“We had all kinds of aviation flying today,” fire operations chief Todd Abel said at a Santa Fe National Forest briefing Friday evening. “We haven’t had that opportunity in a long time.”

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