A way of life is all but extinguished by New Mexico’s largest wildfire
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Nearly a year after the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire destroyed adobe homes that had survived for centuries, and millions of acres of forestland that sustained many, families are still struggling to find their footing.
MORA COUNTY, N.M. — Benito Sanchez has been living in an Albuquerque hotel room with his ailing, 100-year-old grandmother for the past year after the state’s largest wildfire burned their modular home to the ground.
A homeowners insurance claim paid Sanchez $70,000, enough to help with the groceries but not enough to buy another home.
