TONY CLARK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Frank. Perhaps the best news is that the winds are so much lighter today than they were yesterday. At one point yesterday, it was difficult to stand at times because the wind with gusts of 50, 60 miles an hour made it very difficult to stand. And more importantly, it fueled the fire. It kept spreading the fire. Today, the winds are calmer, and just a short time ago we saw one of the helicopters that carries buckets of water flying overhead to continue trying to douse the fire. The fire continued on last night. It continued to burn because of the winds that were keeping the firefighters retreating more than going forward. Fire officials said that it was difficult to try and fight the fire. It was more up to the weather than it was to their efforts, that it was fighting a losing battle. The fortunate thing was there were no more homes in the Los Alamos areas that were destroyed last night. They have pretty much controlled that area. But the chief of the Los Alamos Fire Department says you can't be too confident, now, that there can still be more fires in areas that have already been burned.</s>CHIEF DOUG TUCKER, LOS ALAMOS FIRE DEPARTMENT: We have a lot more burning than we planned on. We have lost some buildings; nothing very significant. On the lab site, it has rolled over the tops, dropped into the canyons, and it's sitting there like a sleeping giant as we speak.</s>CLARK: And the -- there about 1,000 firefighters here, many from other parts of the country, who are trying to fight this fire. There is some optimism today, but the governor has said, don't expect this fire to be contained today. It is interesting to note: This is a flyer from a conference that was held at the end of April, the title, "Wildfire 2000: Los Alamos at Risk," one of the sessions about proscribed burns, reducing the wildfire threat. Just a couple of weeks after this conference, it was just such a proscribed burn that led to this wildfire. Tony Clark, CNN, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Calmer Winds Fuel Optimism as Firefighters Battle New Mexico Blazes