Los Alamos - Unexploded munitions keep firefighters at bay

The U.S. Forest Service is letting a 20-acre fire south of Tijeras burn because it is scorching an area that was used to test explosives during the cold war era. "We can't allow our firefighters to go off of the hard road to fight the fire because of unexploded ordinance. And since this landscape was used for testing, there are still live munitions actually still left in the ground," said Karen Takai of the U.S. Forest Service. Back in the Cold War era, the Department of Defense used the area to test explosives...KOB-TV

Over 60 yeas later and the feds still haven't cleaned up their mess.

That doesn't keep them, though, from prosecuting, fining and throwing in jail others whose mess is far less dangerous.