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Several area agencies are helping fight a wildfire on Fort Carson training land in Fremont County. The fire grew to 670 acres Thursday due to strong winds.
A coalition of firefighters and volunteers entered their seventh day Wednesday of battling wildfires in western and central Nebraska — including one that is the largest in state history — that have scorched a massive area of range and grassland and killed one person.
A fast-moving fire burning along Colorado 115 south of Colorado Springs blew the containment line Thursday, spreading farther east onto Fort Carson and scorching nearly 700 acres, officials said. The blaze was fully uncontained as of late Thursday afternoon,
Get live updates on wildfires across western and central Nebraska that have burned thousands of acres since Thursday, forcing evacuations, damaging ranchland and drawing firefighting crews from across the region.
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A wildfire burning on 58 acres in southern Colorado forced evacuations for people living north of Westcliffe in Custer County, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.
WILDFIRES CONTINUE TO RAGE IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA, BUT FIREFIGHTERS ARE MAKING PROGRESS. THERE ARE FOUR MAJOR WILDFIRES, THE LARGEST. THE MORRILL FIRE, IS NOW 67% CONTAINED. THE SECOND LARGEST,