Tag: Pueblo And Custer Counties
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Aspen Acres fire crews make headway; blaze is 13% contained
UPDATE (8:50 p.m.): According to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, all areas under per-evacuation in the county have been upgraded to mandatory evacuation orders. This also includes the town of Williamsburg.The areas under evacuation include, according to the sheriff’s office social media announcement:-Fremont County Roads 15, 103, and 100-Newlin Ridge Road-Los Pinos Subdivision-Lock Mountain Estates-The…
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Aspen Acres fire grows to 10th-largest in Colorado history; incident team from Alaska takes charge
The Aspen Acres fire plume towered over Custer and Pueblo counties on Thursday as the blaze continued to grow in size in extremely hot, dry and windy weather. “I’ve been a firefighter for 40 years and I’ve never seen conditions like we’re seeing,” Mike Morgan, director of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control,…