Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO, N.M. — State officials have lifted evacuations that had been ordered for about a dozen homes in the area of a wind-driven fire has burned around 500 acres along the Rio Grande in south-central New Mexico.
The San Pedro Fire is considered 40 percent contained.
State Forestry Division spokesman Dan Ware said the evacuations for homes south of U.S. 380 have been lifted. Officials on Wednesday night had lifted an evacuation order for homes north of the highway.
The blaze burned an abandoned home and briefly forced the closure of U.S. 380 Wednesday at San Antonio.
Ware said firefighters were unable to protect the home that burned because the yard had plenty of fuel to sustain the blaze, including brush, roof shingles and abandoned cars.
"It's such a prime example of how defensible space could keep homes from being destroyed," he said.
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