https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/confronting-flames-floods-and-more-in-a-warming-world/

“In just one day,” she told me, “it burned everything away.”

Nina Wells, a retired Environmental Specialist with the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau, has over 20 years of experience coping with fires and drought. She was describing the Las Conchas fire, the catastrophic flames that burned nearly an acre per second for 13 hours in 2011, ultimately igniting more than 150,000 acres and threatening the town of Los Alamos.