Update, 5:15 p.m. Wednesday: The Dry Creek Fire south of Rifle is now 35% contained, according to watchduty.org. Firefighters have made progress constructing direct handline and installing hose lays along the western perimeter of the fire, according to a Wednesday evening Face...
Update, 5:45 p.m. Thursday: The Dry Creek Fire south of Rifle reached 90% containment Thursday evening, Colorado River Fire Rescue Chief Leif Sackett said. Sackett said conditions are looking good around most of the fire, though crews are still working along the west and north...
Pitkin County Sheriff Michael Buglione will enter Stage 2 Fire Restrictions at 12:01 a.m. Friday, June 26, which was announced at a joint Aspen City Council and Board of County Commissioners meeting on Monday. This follows Pitkin County’s move into Stage 1 on June 10. Accor...
Colorado could continue to see hazy skies this week as wildfire activity in the West picks up. Smoke from three large wildfires burning in Utah and Nevada pushed across the Western Slope over the weekend, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environmen...
Impacts from Colorado’s extreme drought conditions are hitting several state parks in the state’s northwest corner. Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced emergency water conservation measures and boating restrictions at both Sylvan Lake State Park in Eagle County and Rifle Ga...
Investigators have determined the June 10 structure and wildland fire near Willow Creek Circle and Government Creek in Rifle was human-caused, though the specific ignition source has not been identified. Colorado River Fire Rescue and the Rifle Police Department are asking for...
Impacts from Colorado’s extreme drought conditions are hitting several state parks in the state’s northwest corner. Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced emergency water conservation measures and boating restrictions at both Sylvan Lake State Park in Eagle County and Rifle Ga...
Thomas Klein Jr. was confirmed Wednesday evening during Rifle City Council’s meeting as the city’s next chief of police. Klein will return to the role he previously held from 2017 to 2021, bringing more than 30 years of law enforcement and municipal leadership experience bac...
Summer is off to a hot start in the Colorado mountains as soaring temperatures, a lack of precipitation and wind are worsening already severe drought conditions and exacerbating wildfire concerns. Across most of the mountain region, June has featured near-record temperatures a...
Home heating at 8,000 feet is vital for survival. Innovations for efficiency, convenience and cost were implemented. The last phases were employed when I was a child. In early decades, home heat was fueled by wood and coal. Homes had fireplaces and stoves, including kitchen s...
Summer is off to a hot start in the Colorado mountains as soaring temperatures, a lack of precipitation and wind are worsening already severe drought conditions and exacerbating wildfire concerns. Across most of the mountain region, June has featured near-record temperatures a...
Colorado resort destinations are seeing higher bookings for Independence Day weekend than last year, even as falling consumer confidence slows discretionary spending. As counties in Colorado’s Western Slope implement stricter fire restrictions amid an uptick in wildfire activi...
Grateful to our community I was just one of thousands forced off the interstate or stuck on it June 9 due to the Paradise Creek Fire near South Canyon exit. I was stuck at the West Glenwood exit for seven hours. I was lucky enough to watch the rafters and kayakers on the river...
Hikers reach the top of Hanging Lake Trail in Glenwood Canyon on Thursday, following the ribbon-cutting ceremony on a $4.9 million reconstruction and restoration project after the Grizzly Creek Fire in 2020 and subsequent debris flows and flooding in 2021.…...
The entire White River National Forest will enter Stage 1 fire restrictions on Friday, according to a news release from the U.S. Forest Service. The White River National Forest is the most visited national forest in the United States, drawing nearly 18 million visitors annuall...
Despite May bringing near normal precipitation and temperatures to the state, June has gotten off to a hot and dry start, spiraling Colorado into drought conditions. Understanding more about Colorado’s hydrology is critical to understanding how the drought developed — and got...
Hot, windy, dry summer weather coming off a brutally low-snow winter has the Vail Fire Department once again urging residents to sign up for Eagle County Alerts, work on a personal evacuation plan (the six Ps) and get fuels five feet away from homes with Fire Free Five. “Evacu...
Update 8:15 p.m. Monday: U.S. Highway 6 has reopened in both directions between Rifle and Silt after a small grass fire near Powerline Road prompted a closure and power outages affecting thousands of Garfield County customers Monday afternoon. As of 8:13 p.m., the area had bee...
Colorado River Fire Rescue Station 61 in Silt broke ground on Wednesday, June 10 with a shovel ceremony, attended by Colorado River Fire Rescue board members and firefighters. It was a windy day, but the gold shovels were gleaming and the fire personnel were happy to see what wou...
The City of Rifle implemented Stage 1 fire restrictions Wednesday, aligning with restrictions already enacted across Garfield County. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the Bureau of Land Management, and the county’s seven fire districts announced restrictions on June 9 fol...
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