It’s been four months since Linden and her family were forced to evacuate as wildfires burned dangerously close to her home in Ruidoso ... you know we had floods here too,” said Linden.

Gen. Miguel Aguilar, the New Mexico National Guard’s adjutant general. “Because of the previous flooding in Ruidoso, we have the experience and were ready for this. We’ve worked all night ...

There are those who do business along Ruidoso’s picturesque main street in Midtown who thought just weeks ago that the fires ...