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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Firefighters were confident Thursday they had stopped the advance of a wildfire headed toward the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the nearby town that now sits empty for the second time in 11 years, even as they battled the blaze that crept into a canyon descending into the town and parts of the lab.
Of 1,000 firefighters on the scene, 200 were battling the blaze in Los Alamos Canyon, which runs past the old Manhattan Project site in town and a 1940s-era dump site where workers are near the end of a cleanup of low-level radioactive waste.
