The Turkey Feather Fire and the Chicken Fire could merge after burning thousands of acres already in the Gila Wilderness.

The resort village of Ruidoso was under a flash flood emergency as slow-moving storms left people trapped in homes and prompted water rescues.

According to the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, the coverage for unprotected residential dwellings also rose, from $225,000 to $500,000. These changes apply to single - through four-family occupied homes insured under the New Mexico Fair Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort. Commercial property limits remain unchanged.

Flash flooding hit a New Mexico town devastated by wildfires last year, washing away at least one home and causing gas leaks, city officials said Tuesday.

Fire restrictions are now lifted in the Gila National Forest – and on Bureau of Land Management public lands in nearly half of New Mexico's counties.

Two fires are now burning in the Gila National Forest, north of Silver City, New Mexico. The larger Trout Fire, which has been burning for more than three weeks now,

New Mexico will see both heat and flooding concerns in the coming days following last week’s rainfall, which brought slight improvements to the drought in the southern part of the state. Meteorologist Carter Greulich with the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque office described the coming days as “a rinse-and-repeat-type week” during a weather briefing Monday.

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