Governor estimates over 1,000 structures lost in blaze

Ledoux Volunteer Firefighter Eric Garcia surveys a burned home by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in the Morphy Canyon on May 17, 2022, as a plume of smoke from the largest fire in state history rages in the Pecos Wilderness.

The charred remnants of a structure stand before Eric Garcia on Tuesday as a smoke column rises from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in the distance. On Tuesday the fire had burned nearly 300,000 acres and was 26% contained. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)

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