By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and PAUL DAVENPORT
美联社
The remains of a New Mexico couple were found near their burned home as a wind-driven wildfire charred more than 200 residences on the edge of a mountain community in the southern part of the state.
Fire crews on Thursday used a break in what had been a steady stream of relentless gusts to make headway against the deadly wildfire, which is believed to have killed the two people.
警方调查人员和消防员发现了老年夫妇仍然是周三下午，因为家人通知鲁伊奥洛警察，这两者试图撤离，但未下诉。
The remains were found near the home but not in it, and no additional information was immediately available, Ruidoso spokesperson Kerry Gladden said Thursday. Authorities were working to confirm the identities of the two people.
火灾在周三下午在Ruidoso的东北方面搬进了一个更密集的地区，促使更多的疏散。Laura Rabon是林肯国家森林的发言人，中断了火灾简报，并告诉人们在火焰跳过一条船员试图掌握这条路的道路后离开。
Authorities have told as many as 4,500 people to evacuate.
“我们有没有失去家园的学生。我们必须在星期二支持他们“学校恢复时，高中英语教师萨拉·阿米斯·布朗，当他们被公共汽车疏散时，他们和学生在一起，在他们开车时，在森林里有火焰可见。
Overnight, crews kept the flames from pushing further into the village, and Rabon said that progress continued Thursday as helicopters dropped water and ground crews secured lines on the east and south sides. They also put out hot spots in the neighborhoods where the flames raced through earlier this week.
火灾已经破坏了估计的9平方英里（23平方公里）的森林和草，并且强烈的风吹击打该地区的落后于倒塌的树木和下行电源线。周四的工作人员继续工作，以便自星期一以来一直没有它的村庄的一部分。
Ruidoso市校在周四在Facebook的一份声明中表示，电子邮件不再在学区工作，学校的网站下降了。Gladden说，学校的服务器没有能够在线回来在线回来。
While the cause of the blaze was under investigation, fire officials and forecasters warned that persistent dry and windy conditions had prompted another day of红旗佤邦rningsfor the eastern third of New Mexico and other parts of the Midwest.
Incident Commander Dave Bales said the strategy was “attack while we can,” noting that winds were expected to pick up again Friday.
“We’re trying to keep this fire as small as possible, especially because it’s right in the community,” he said. “We’ve had a loss of a lot of structures so our crews are right there on the fire front going as direct as possible.”
Six new large fires were reported Wednesday: three in Texas, two in Colorado and one in Oklahoma. In all, wildland firefighters and support personnel were trying to contain 11 large fires that have charred more than 40 square miles (103 square kilometers) in five states.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported Thursday that since the start of the year, 18,550 wildfires have burned about 1,250 square miles (3,237 square kilometers). That’s well above the 10-year average of 12,290 wildfires and 835 square miles (2162.64 square kilometers) burned.
Hotter and drier weather coupled with decades of fire suppression have contributed to an increase in the number of acres burned by wildfires, fire scientists say. The problem is exacerbated by a more than 20-year Western megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
在新墨西哥州的其他地方，野火正在沿着阿尔伯克斯州的山脉南部的Rio Grande在拉斯维加斯社区和罗斯威尔镇附近的山地河的山区南北燃烧鲁伊科斯西北部。
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Montoya Bryan reported from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Davenport from Phoenix.
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