It was missing. It was not included. So the people on the fire with inadequate resources did not know that this wind event was coming. The Cerro Grande fire began as a controlled burn designed to limit the power of future wildfires by burning away brush from uninhabited rocky areas. Your wind starts coming up and it's hard to keep a handle on it.
Stuff starts popping up everywhere.
You don't have enough people to go around. Hardest hit was the town of Los Alamos, home to the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory, which conducts nuclear weapons research. Officials at the lab have said the wildfire never threatened nuclear and other weapons material stored in underground bunkers and fortified buildings. The lab's major facilities also emerged unscathed, but a complex of historic buildings where scientists assembled the first atomic bomb was destroyed, as were some temporary trailers. About 400 families are homeless.