Tag: Rye
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Colorado wildfire roundup: Aspen Acres explodes to 23,000 acres, evacuations from Custer County to I-25
Multiple wildfires continue to burn across Colorado, forcing several evacuations and road closures, according to local and state officials. The fastest-growing and largest fire was first reported at 40 acres around 6 a.m. Monday and began in Custer County near the Pueblo County line. It rapidly grew northeastward to more than 23,100 acres by 5…
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Southern Colorado residents evacuate, then wait and wonder
Towers of smoke were slowly encircling Mountain Shadows Mobile Estates Monday afternoon. A few makeshift sprinklers worked furiously at the western edge of the mobile home community, but hard wind blew ash into scrubby yards. Sandy Merrill paced outside her home while sister Joyce Johnson sat nearby, back to the blaze. Both had evacuated from…