'Make or break day' expected in Los Alamos fire Town remains evacuated, lab closed;

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'Make or break day' expected in Los Alamos fire
Town remains evacuated, lab closed; air monitored for any nuclear releases

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43558540/ns/weather/

msnbc.com news services
updated 8 minutes ago

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — After a quiet morning, firefighters protecting this town and the nation's largest nuclear lab hoped the same would be true for the rest of Tuesday.

Calling it a "make or break day," officials said no additional structures had been lost but noted that the massive fire could make a run through two canyons.

The town of Los Alamos, home to about 12,000 people, was evacuated Monday afternoon as a precaution.

The wildfire — which has burned 60,000 acres, or 93 square miles, in just two days — sparked a spot fire at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on Monday. The fire was quickly contained, and lab officials said no contamination was released and radioactive materials stored at spots on the sprawling lab were safe.

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1. I wonder what lab officials would say if the radioactive materials were not safe.

...and there was contamination.

Same thing, I bet.