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New Mexico fire
incinerates town
By Chris Roberts
Associated Press
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Driven
by swirling winds of up to 45
mph, fire rolled from block to
block in abandoned Los Alamos
on Thursday, burning scores of
homes down to their foundations
in the town where the atomic
bomb was built.
Firefighters rushed to save
houses as orange flames and bil
lowing smoke rose over the town.
Whole neighborhoods were re
duced to smoking ruins, with
everything from trailers to man
sions going up in smoke.
The wildfire first reached Los
Alamos on Wednesday — forcing
the evacuation of the entire town
— and exploded in size from
3,700 acres to 18,000 Thursday,
fanned by blowtorch wind so
strong it made parked cars sway.
“I can’t believe how many
homes are gone,” said Don Shain
in, a fire battalion commander
from Albuquerque who came to
Los Alamos to help out.
At the Los Alamos nuclear
weapons laboratory, flames singed
a research building, rolled past
concrete bunkers containing explo
sives, and came within 30 yards of
a plutonium storage facility. But lab
officials insisted that dangerous
materials were protected in fire
proof facilities strong enough to
withstand the crash of a 747.
“We can assure the country and
New Mexico that our nuclear ma
terials are safe,” said Energy Sec
retary Bill Richardson, a former
New Mexico congressman.
County Manager Joe King esti
mated that 100 homes burned.
Rep. Tom Udall, whose district in
cludes Los Alamos, said federal
officials estimated 300 to 400.
With the fire spreading and
18,000 people evacuated from Los
Alamos and nearby White Rock,
finger-pointing had already begun.
The fire had been set May 4 by
the National Park Service to clear
brush near Bandelier National
Monument, but it raged out of
control in the dry, windy condi
tions. Bandelier’s superintendent
said he didn’t see a special Na
tional Weather Service forecast
faxed to the park beforehand that
said fire-growth conditions were
at their highest.
Federal authorities pledged to
investigate.
“Somebody made a mistake and
obviously we have to find out
who,” Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N-.M.,
said as he visited the fire zone*.
Crews working with hand tools
and bulldozers worked feverishly
to protect homes by clearing away
vegetation and cutting firebreaks
ahead of the flames. Helicopters
dropped water on the fire, while
airplanes bombarded it with pink
fire retardant.
Los Alamos, 70 miles north of
Albuquerque, is essentially a com
pany town for the weapons labora
tory, which employs 7,000 people
at buildings scattered throughout
the city. The town is on a mesa at
an altitude of 7,600 feet.
The fire came out of the Jemez
Mountains to the west and moved
northeast, torching the west and
north sides of the city.
Past Humane Society
official denies claims
EUGENE — The former direc
tor of Humane Society chapters
in Bend and in Eugene denies al
legations that he mismanaged fi
nances or kept pornographic files
on an office computer.
“Absolutely not,” Kimball
Lewis told The Register-Guard.
Lewis resigned last month as
director of the Humane Society of
Central Oregon in Bend after em
ployees demanded that the board
of directors fire him.
The Oregon attorney general’s
office is investigating allegations
of financial mismanagement at
the Bend chapter, and similar al
legations have surfaced at the
Greenhill Humane Society in Eu
gene.
Gov. John Kitzhaber’s office is
looking into whether Lewis had a
state humane agent license,
which allows humane society
employees to serve search'war
rants and make arrests in animal
cruelty cases.
The eight valid licenses in Ore
gon were issued to other agents,
but Lewis had one that appears to
bear the governor’s signature.
Lewis blamed his resignation
from the Bend chapter of the Hu
mane Society on the death of his
Germaij shepherd, Donner, after
the dog was found shot and
hanged in a tree outside his
home.
Lewis left the Eugene chapter
of the Humane Society last sum
mer to take over as executive di
rector in Bend.
He said the allegations at both
chapters may be the result of his
management style.
“I didn’t come to Eugene to
make as many friends as I could,”
he told The Register-Guard. “I
came to Eugene to stop as much
animal abuse as I could.”
The Humane Society employ
ees in Bend alleged that Lewis
mismanaged the shelter’s money,
was addicted to computer
pornography and showed disre
spect for women.
Two weeks ago, former Green
hill employees Amy Vogt and
Misty Green alleged that similar
problems occurred at the Eugene
chapter, saying Lewis received
unrecorded donations. Green also
said she regularly came across
pornographic materials on a com
puter she shared with Lewis.
A third former employee,
Shelly Timmins, has since
stepped forward and said that
she, too, questioned Lewis about
some of his financial procedures
and priorities at Greenhill. Tim
mins said she was in charge of
day-to-day bookkeeping at Green
hill for 15 months until Lewis
fired her in April 1998.
Executive Director Laura
Brounsten and board President
Susan Hilton have said they have
no evidence of impropriety and
support Lewis as a dedicated
leader in the fight for stray and
abused animals.
“People who monitor the or
ganization have stated that I did
an excellent job,” Lewis said.
He said he didn’t respond to
the Greenhill accusations earlier
because he was grief-stricken
over the death of his dog. “But re
maining silent now doesn’t help
me any more,” he said.
The Associated Press
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