Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 02:20
in Mathematics & Economics
(AP) -- Thousands of residents calmly fled Monday from the mesa-top town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, ahead of an approaching wildfire that sent up towering plumes of smoke, rained down ash and sparked a spot fire on lab property where scientists 50 years ago conducted underground tests of radioactive explosives.