Dozens of homes destroyed by New Mexico wildfire

A wind-driven wildfire has destroyed dozens of homes in the New Mexico mountain town Ruidoso and continued to burn through residential areas on Wednesday, local officials said. “It still has a ways to go to get out of those residential areas,” said Kerry Gladden, a spokeswoman for the resort town of around 8,000 residents. Like other western states, New Mexico is suffering an early start to its fire season as blazes quickly spread through grassland and forests suffering from severe to extreme drought.