Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One person is dead and around 1,400 structures have been destroyed in New Mexico wildfires that forced the evacuation of an entire town of more than 7,000 people, officials said Tuesday as the ...
Earlier this week, Crawford said more than two dozen people were unaccounted for after the two fires, which broke out last week and prompted the evacuation of Ruidoso, a town of around 7,500.
Residents of the New Mexico town of Ruidoso, which was totally evacuated last week in advance of two fast-moving wildfires, were allowed back Monday to see whether their homes are still standing.
With the September 1947 formation of the USAF, in late 1947 the Holloman range and the White Sands Proving Ground merged to become the New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range (later renamed White Sands Missile Range), [5]: 248 and the renamed Holloman Air Force Base (13 January 1948) supported WSMR launch complexes (Launch Complex 33, etc ...
The aircraft crashed over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains ten miles (16 km) northwest of Mora, New Mexico. Of the crew on board, two died and four ejected successfully. On 19 November, another "E" model (tail number 56‑0655) from 6th Bombardment Wing was destroyed in a fire during maintenance work at Walker AFB, New Mexico.
Alamogordo Army Air Base in New Mexico was renamed Holloman AFB on 13 January 1948. [218] [219] [220] The wreckage of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress en route from Hickam Field in Hawaii to Hamilton Field in California was discovered by a private pilot on a 3,820-foot ridge 15 miles southeast of Livermore, California and 25 miles northeast of San ...
Thousands of residents fled their homes as a wildfire swept into the mountain village of Ruidoso in southern New Mexico on Tuesday, destroying or damaging more than 500 structures. “The horrific ...
A U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111E, 67-0117, c/n A1-162/E-3, out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, crashed in a rocky area of the Mojave Desert 12 miles S of Death Valley National Monument during a test flight, [62] both crew, pilot Maj. James W. Hurt, 34, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and WSO Maj. Robert J. Furman, 31, of New York City ...