Western wildfires threaten towns

Smoke looms over Truchas, New Mexico, on Friday as crews head toward the fire line. The town's 400 residents were evacuated Thursday.

CORDOVA, New Mexico (CNN) -- Residents of Cordova, New Mexico, turned their eyes to the southeast Saturday as the 6,000-acre Borrego fire, burning drought-dried pinyon and ponderosa pine and driven by high winds, pushed to within two miles of their tiny community three days after it started.

At least five seasonal wildfires blazed across the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions, scorching nearly 25,000 acres. Two others in the area were contained before they reached large proportions.

The area's other large fire burned 15 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona, where the Bullock fire in the Coronado National Forest had consumed 9,000 acres and threatened a ski recreation area. Seventeen firefighting crews with more than 500 firefighters were on duty battling that blaze as it churned to the northwest.

Just east of Cordova, 400 residents of Truchas, New Mexico, were moved Thursday to an evacuation center that the American Red Cross established.

In Colorado, a 4,000-acre fire in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest has destroyed 13 structures and forced the evacuation of nearby Deckers, while a complex of four fires in the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison National Forest was burning nearly 3,500 acres.