defense and strategic location in new mexico. right now the lab s facilities face no immediate threat and all radioactive and hazardous materials are protected. 93 square miles is the latest numbers. 63,000 acres burned. we are told the lab facility that brought in the expert team to provide an extra layer of security, the concern is the smoke. significant amount of smoke so they have 60 different air monitoring stations at the laboratory and people are monitoring those for the smoke so hopefully it doesn t affect any of the high-tech equipment located there. we had a chance to hear from firefighters earlier. they are confident as long as the winds stay where they are. if that wind changes, it could come down into the town of los alamos. take a his to the firefighters talking about take a listen
maybe more concerned about the disruption to the laboratory mission and, just the work that we are trying to do. that is the primary concern, i guess. martha: interesting. all right, adam housely joins us live now, in l.a. with more on the threat to los alamos. reporter: you know, right now we are told by lab officials, none of the facilities, at this hour face immediate threat from flames and all the hazardous materials, all radioactive materials are accounted for and protected. and we have been told a highly trained and specially equipped expert has been brought into provide an extra layer of security and they are more concerned about smoke now than the flames and have people watching 60 different air monitoring stations, on the location there. and, the fire briefings have been taken place onsite as well and we have been told the last couple of minutes the lab will be closed now through wednesday, so, all nonessential personnel have been told not to come to work and as we know the
and we ll continue to beef up that program as we have now learned we re dealing with additional breaches which probably mean additional controlled burns in the future. epa has air monitoring aircraft that are, one, that is gathering information on the impact of the controlled burn on air quality. both in the area of the burn and of course further away. we re collecting air data from fixed and portable air monitoring stations in the area. we ll analyze that data. as i said make it public in the coming days. certainly as soon as possible. along with the air monitoring plan, which is in draft and which will be revised as we go along. and as the situation changes. third has as been discussed already we expect the oil to hit the shoreline in the near term. in that event the coast guard will remain in the lead. the coast guard is the lead on water and in the coastal zone. as that happens though, we expect epa s role will expand. epa is generally the lead for land-based cleanup.
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