GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: Northern New Mexico got some badly needed relief today in the form of cooler temperatures and weaker winds as firefighters struggle to contain the raging wildfires that have scorched the region. More than 35,000 acres have been burned, about 260 homes destroyed. CNN's Charles Zewe is in Los Alamos, turned into a ghost town by this week's evacuations -- Charles.</s>CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Gene, here's the scene right now, helicopters still in the air, still lots of fire around Los Alamos, but it is mostly moving away from the populated areas. Officials saying here, as you just pointed out, that cooler temperatures, some temperatures near 35, 32 degrees overnight slowed this big fire down, but it is still moving out relentlessly in three directions. The U.S. Forest Service's Jim Paxton explaining the fire is nowhere near under control.</s>JIM PAXTON, U.S. FOREST SERVICE: This fire is still advancing in three directions. At midnight last night we were at 33,000 acres. We said then that we had only 5 percent of it contained. Contained means that there is a line on that fire and it is not advancing in that particular portion. With the fire burning in so many different directions it will be a long time before we get this fire contained. We just simply don't have enough people, power and machines and aircraft to just stop it right now. This fire is going to burn for weeks.</s>ZEWE: In fact, there is so much fuel out there, so much downed timber and other debris in the forests after the driest winter on record, officials say, that there will be fire out here for months to come. By the way, officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratories took reporters on a tour today, stressing the point that there has been no radioactive release of any kind. There has been some minor damages to buildings there, but there has only been a slight background increase in radiation, they think, because of all of the trees that have been burned up -- Gene.</s>RANDALL: Thanks, Charles.
New Mexico Wildfires Slowing Down, But Far From Over