Despite the prospect of rough conditions, sleeping in tents and surviving on camp rations, a crew of unfazed Farmington firefighters left for Los Alamos on Friday.

Warmer, drier weather and rugged terrain are hampering efforts to contain the state's largest wildfire burning near Los Alamos.

Air Force Reserve personnel and two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipped C-130s continue to assist the U.S. Forest Service in fighting wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona.

A week ago, 700 miles apart, evacuations of heavily populated areas took place as people moved to safety from possible nuclear disasters -- two flooded nuclear power plants in Nebraska, Fort Calhoun and Cooper, and a raging wildfire near the nuclear lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Smoke still hung in the air from a northern New Mexico wildfire that came dangerously close to the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory, but life was returning to normal Wednesday as thousands of employees showed up for their first day of work in more than a week.

Smoke still hung in the air from a northern New Mexico wildfire that came dangerously close to the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory, but life was returning to normal Wednesday as thousands of employees showed up for their first day of work in more than a week.

The rampaging Las Conchas wildfire closed in on sacred Indian lands in New Mexico on Wednesday, burning less than a mile away from the Chicoma Mountain, considered a spiritual center for Pueblo Indians.

The "Las Conchas" wildfire just outside Los Alamos is 27 percent contained Tuesday morning.

A charred forest smolders near Los Alamos, New Mexico. msnbc.com news services msnbc.com news services updated 24 minutes ago 2011-07-05T08:12:34 SANTA FE, New Mexico - As firefighters made progress saving Indian pueblo lands on the north end of New Mexico's largest wildfire, officials worried on Monday about a possible second punch from Mother ...

The Las Conchas fire near the town of Los Alamos, N.M. is still smoldering in the distance on Monday afternoon, July 4. msnbc.com news services msnbc.com news services updated 2011-07-05T08:12:34 SANTA FE, New Mexico - As firefighters made progress saving Indian pueblo lands on the north end of New Mexico's largest wildfire, officials worried on ...

The Las Conchas fire near the town of Los Alamos, N.M. is still smoldering in the distance on Monday afternoon, July 4. msnbc.com news services msnbc.com news services updated 2011-07-05T08:12:34 SANTA FE, New Mexico - As firefighters made progress saving Indian pueblo lands on the north end of New Mexico's largest wildfire, officials worried on ...

... community of Los Alamos -- and to the government nuclear lab that is located there -- has eased. But the biggest wildfire in New Mexico history is still threatening sites that are held sacred by American Indian tribes. The fire last week reached the ...

The wildfire burning near Los Alamos has scorched 123,500 acres or 192 square miles and is 19 percent contained Monday.

... an eastern Arizona forest has been replaced with the odor of smoke. The forest green is now gray and black after a wildfire reduced large areas of the Arizona White Mountains to a blackened pile of sticks and stumps. The Wallow Fire that has ...

... of town. Although the threat to Los Alamos and the nation's premier nuclear research lab had passed, the mammoth wildfire raging in northern New Mexico was still threatening sacred sites of American Indian tribes. Hundreds of firefighters were ...

... their homes shortly after the massive fire began June 26. On Monday, more than 2,100 firefighters were battling the wildfire that was still threatening hundreds of buildings and ancient sites on Indian lands in northern New Mexico. The Las Conchas ...

The fire threat to the New Mexico community of Los Alamos and to the government nuclear lab that is located there eased Monday, but the biggest wildfire in New Mexico history was still threatening sites that are held sacred by American Indian tribes.