The Latest: Crews mopping up fires in northwest New Mexico

GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on New Mexico wildfires (all times local): Crews continue to mop up and patrol two nearby wildfires now largely contained on a butte and a mountain in northwestern New Mexico. Nearly 300 firefighters and other personnel were still assigned to the fires Saturday but the top-tier management team assigned to both fires planned Sunday to turn over the reins to a lower-tier management team. The two fires have burned a total of 20 square miles of grass and timber as of Saturday, with one reported at 91 percent of containment and the other at 54 percent. Blown embers from a prescribed burn started one fire. An abandoned campfire started the other. The fires are located about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Grants. 11:25 a.m. Firefighters have contained most of a wildfire that threatened about a dozen homes in a small community in northern Socorro County on Friday. An update posted Friday night by the state Forestry Division says the fire a mile (1.6 kilometers) north of Bernardo off State Route 116 had burned approximately 30 acres (12 hectares) and was 75 percent contained. Division spokeswoman Wendy Mason said the fire started Friday afternoon on private property. State forestry crews and local fire departments were called out to fight the fire.