By CEDAR ATTANASIO and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press
拉斯维加斯，北卡罗来纳州（美联社） - 预计在新墨西哥州东北部的危险，阵阵风将继续进行，这使与威胁山区山区社区成千上万家庭的野火斗争变得复杂。
该地区最大的城市 - 新墨西哥州的拉斯维加斯，有13,000人的所在地 - 在消防员大部分阻止那里的大火远离向东移动之后，在很大程度上可以避免危险。但是，野火的北部和南部侧面被证明更棘手，因为风阵风高达50 mph（80 kph）。
“It’s been a challenging day. The winds have picked up; they haven’t let up,” fire spokesperson Todd Abel said Sunday night.
一个所谓的“危险警告”，表明由于热，低湿度和快风而引起的高火危险将在周一晚上，即开始近四天。
周日，超过1,600名消防员与新墨西哥州圣达菲东北部燃烧的两个主要大火作斗争。他们一起覆盖了275平方英里（约710平方公里），这是费城大小的两倍以上。到周日晚上，消防员已经占有近一半的烈酒。
Still, the threat was far from over with the National Interagency Fire Center saying early Sunday that more than 20,000 structures remained threatened by the fire, which has destroyed about 300 residences over the past two weeks.
Fast winds are in many ways firefighters’ worst nightmare, especially in conditions as hot and dry as those the crews have been battling in the Southwest since early April.
In addition to fanning and spreading the flames, these winds keep air tankers and light planes grounded. That left them unable to drop water directly on the fire or lay down retardant ahead of its path to allow bulldozers and ground crews to dig firebreaks in places where there are no highways or roads to help stop the progression.
在极端条件下，就像新墨西哥州的那些人一样，即使是通常可以在空中起飞的直升机（至少在下午风开始在凌晨开始涌现之前）也被扎根。这样可以阻止他们收集有关隔夜发展的情报。飞机能够在周日早些时候飞行，但到了下午。
“It’s not good, obviously; it takes away a tool in our toolbox, but we’re not stopping,” said fire spokesperson Ryan Berlin.
Officials were concerned about winds that had whipped up more flames on the northern edge of the fire near some very small communities of several hundred people. Gusts had driven fire down into a canyon, making it difficult to get to, said Dave Bales, the incident commander.
他和其他官员强烈敦促人们准备撤离或在被告知这样做的情况下立即离开。他说，如果大火淹没了一个社区，烟雾和拥挤的道路可能会使人们难以逃离，并让消防员进入该地区。
“It is so thick you can’t see, you can’t drive, you can’t see the engine ahead of you,” Bales said.
Those towns sit along a state highway that runs from Las Vegas, New Mexico, up to Taos, a popular place for skiing and other outdoor recreation. Taos, however, was not threatened, but people in some parts of the larger Taos County have been told to prepare for possible evacuations.
在小社区of Las Vegas, some residents began returning on Saturday and some local businesses reopened. Containment lines established by bulldozers as well as the direction of the wind helped keep the community safe over the weekend. But some fire officials warned people to remain aware of evacuation orders because conditions could change quickly.
“Just because the winds are coming from one direction doesn’t mean they can’t change direction, so it’s better to be prepared and have residents ready to go,” said Wendy Mason with the New Mexico Forestry Division.
根据国家机构间消防中心的数据，在全国范围内，今年到目前为止，今年到目前为止燃烧了近2,000平方英里（5,180平方公里），2018年是这一点上最后一次报道了这次大火。对于西方，对春季剩余时间的预测不能很好地兆头，在那里，长期干旱和气候变化带来的温度越来越高，使野火的威胁加剧了。
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Ronayne reported from Sacramento, California. Associated Press reporter Scott Sonner contributed from Reno, Nevada.
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