'Stinky' wildfire smoke invades Albuquerque

Critical fire conditions continued Friday across the dry and windy Southwest -- including New Mexico where a massive wildfire destroyed a dozen homes and left a smoky haze over Albuquerque that one weatherman described as "stinky." Haze from the fire covered much of the state and the smell moved overnight into Albuquerque, which is 170 miles from the fire, NBC affiliate KOB-TV reported. "It's a little bit stinky," KOB weatherman Steve Stucker said on Friday morning's news show. Crews have not been able to cut a containment line ahead of the fire, which threatens more homes after destroying 12 in the Willow Creek community. The wildfire, which has burned 110 square miles, is the biggest of a dozen burning in parts of five Southwestern states. Blazes in rugged, mountainous areas of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah have forced the evacuation of a few small towns and torched at least 170 square miles of forest, brush and grass since mid-month...more

I'll bet the folks in the Gila are so sorry the Albq. weatherman is inconvenienced. What he should be commenting on is the "stinky" management of our forests by the feds. The smell would overwhelm him.