Los Alamos Fire: 1st Air Samples Show No Elevated Radiation

The wildfire that surrounds the nuclear lab in Los Alamos, N.M., has grown to at least 61,000 acres amid mounting concerns about what might be in the smoke that's visible from space. Such fear has prompted fire crews to set their own fires along the perimeter of the lab. So far, the strategy is working. The first air samples show lots of smoke, but no signs of elevated radiation. "Those results show that what we see in this fire is exactly what we see in any fire across New Mexico," said...Full Story