Wildfire triggers evacuation for Los Alamos laboratory

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http://beta.news.yahoo.com/wildfire-triggers-evacuations-near-los-alamos-002006674.html


Voluntary evacuations have been issued for Los Alamos, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is threatened by a fast-moving wildfire that broke out in northern New Mexico on Sunday, authorities said.

The Las Conchas Fire flared early Sunday afternoon around 12 miles southwest of Los Alamos, charring about 3,500 acres and endangering the nation's nuclear weapons laboratory and its surrounding communities, said Lawrence Lujan, a spokesman for the Santa Fe National Forest.

"We have homes and we have the labs, so it's a very, very big concern, not only locally but nationally and globally," Lujan said.

"This fire is very complex. We have a national type one team coming in because of the nature of the fire," he said.
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what's a national type one team?

big concern locally, nationally, globally - wow

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1. Last time this happened labs were shut down for 3 months. Aside from the human toll

the econominc toll will be devastating. The company I work for relies on LANL for most of our business. if they are shut down for more than a month I don't see how we will be able to make it through without atleast temporary lay-offs for most of us.

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2. thanks for info - hope you make it through

nt

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3. Thanks for the wishes. 90% of us have our fingers crossed, the other 10% are in denial

Hopefully it will work out.

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4. kicking before I go

nt

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5. Yikes. I have a young female first cousin once removed who is a nuclear physicist there.