Massive fracking fire breaks out in New Mexico oilfield, forcing families to evacuate homes

‘A giant oilfield located in the Indian reservation territories of Northwest New Mexico caused a major environmental disaster recently, after 36 oil and gas storage tanks caught fire, setting off a chain reaction of explosions that temporarily shut down a major highway and forced at least 55 residents living in the area to evacuate their homes.
According to reports, the fires began in San Juan County at a fracking site owned and operated by Oklahoma-based WPX Energy, which was given permission by the Farmington Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to drill the land back in December. Drilling by WPX ceased several months later in May, and the Albuquerque-based news outlet KOAT says that WPX had only been producing oil at the site for one week before the fires occurred.’
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