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

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.

Residents of Ruidoso, New Mexico, were forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires rapidly encroached on the 7,000-resident village in the Land of Enchantment's south.

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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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