DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Showing you pictures there from the area in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where thousands of people have been evacuated in the wake of wildfires there. A lot of residents aren't sure whether they will have homes to return to. Reporter Tim Blotz now, of our affiliate KOAT, has more on this mass evacuation.</s>TIM BLOTZ, KOAT REPORTER (voice-over): If the skies over Los Alamos didn't tell the story, then the streets certainly did: Run like hell.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, this is pretty scary, probably the biggest thing that has ever happened in this town.</s>BLOTZ: This was one of two evacuation routes bumper to bumper, the second round no better. Jose Martinez (ph) couldn't believe what he was seeing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have lived here for 32 years and this has never happened before.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am originally from Oregon, and I have never seen anything like it, ever.</s>BLOTZ: Neither could his wife, watching helplessly from their truck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: From where our house was, there was ashes coming down, and ashes coming -- You could see the ashes hitting the cars and stuff. It was getting pretty bad.</s>BLOTZ: And from the air it was bad. By late afternoon, the fire had reached two Los Alamos neighborhoods, the winds so strong it grounded firefighting helicopters, and blackened the heart of the city with ash and dust.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because of the winds and because of the danger to the firefighters, we've had to pull people back in a -- and not aggressively fight the fire.</s>BLOTZ: No comfort for the hundreds of people who run from their homes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't believe it. I have never seen anything like it.</s>KAGAN: And that was reporter Tim Blotz, from our affiliate KOAT.
Thousands of Los Alamos Residents Evacuate in Wake of Wildfires