Residents of Columbine Manor Care Center have recently started the Silver Spartan Fan Club, a group that will be getting out regularly to see Salida High School home basketball games.
Thousands of residents of northern New Mexico villages on Sunday fled as fierce winds drove the largest active US wildfire toward their drought-parched mountain valley.
Winds gusting more than 64kph blew embers a kilometer ahead of the blaze to start new fires as bulldozers carved fire breaks to protect the villages of Ledoux, Mora and Cleveland about 64km northeast of Santa Fe.
They are among farming communities and an Old West city in the path of the Calf Canyon fire, the most destructive of a dozen southwest blazes that scientists say are more widespread and arriving earlier this year due to climate