Las Conchas Fire - UPDATED!

Taken July 4th at 8:30 PM

Picture from our house last Thursday June 30th.

This blog is a little different then most of our blogs. It is more a plea for prayer for all those who are affected by this fire. With so many fires in our nation right now, there are 24 fires in our state alone. 

Pray for all those who live in the Los Alamos area. Pray for all those risking their lives to fight this and other fires.

Below are some pictures I took, that show the eerie beauty in the beast of the blaze. The video was taken by a youtube user.

 LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - A wildfire that is threatening the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory and a community in northern New Mexico is poised to become the largest fire in state history.

The fire near Los Alamos has charred nearly 145 square miles, or 92,735 acres. The blaze has been growing by tens of thousands of acres a day.

It's close to surpassing New Mexico's largest fire, the Dry Lakes fire.

That blaze charred more than 94,000 acres in the Gila National Forest in 2003. Crews have managed to contain only 3 percent of the fire near Los Alamos.

They're bracing for winds that could gust up to 40 mph Thursday afternoon. Fire information officer Sandra Lopez says crews are dealing with rugged, steep country, hot temperatures and erratic winds.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Pretty Amazing

This is what it looked like at our house yesterday.

This is not dust, its smoke.

This was from the first night.

If you look close you can see the flames. This is 30+ miles away

This was about 2 hours after the fire started.