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A new wildfire sparked in the “remote, rugged terrain” of White River National Forest on Sunday and has consumed 25 acres, ...
After a weekend of firefighters battling a growing wildfire, the Lee Fire near Meeker has now burned 137,485 acres. It’s ...
Significant progress was made over the weekend to contain and control the Elk and Lee fires in Rio Blanco County near Meeker.
A three-person crew from Colorado Springs Fire Department just returned from a 14-day deployment helping at the Elk and Lee fires on the western side of Colorado.
Firefighters are comfortable saying the town of Meeker is safe from the Lee and Elk Fires, but they had to do some serious ...
When the Lee Fire jumped Colorado Highway 13 in Rio Blanco County on Aug. 6, the town of Meeker was under threat. Spreading ...
The Meeker Volunteer Fire Department was the first agency to respond to a wildfire that grew into one of the largest in state ...
In total, 24 fires are raging across the state. The ongoing Lee Fire is already the state's fifth-largest in terms of acreage.