The goat showed firefighters the best path up and down, often stopping to bleat and encourage them to follow her route, said Shayne Coyne, superintendent of the Southern Colorado Interagency Wildland Fire Team.
Weather helped firefighters slow or stop growth on four major wildfires in Colorado: Aspen Acres fire in Custer and Pueblo counties, Gold Mountain fire near Ouray, Willow fire near Leadville, Ferris fire in San Juan National Forest near Dolores.
Cheesman Park: The Game, created by 33-year-old Casey Cantor, is filled with recognizable landmarks from the 80-acre Denver park, brought to life one pixel at a time.
The lawyer for a Ugandan priest said ICE personnel in Aurora, Colorado, pressured a him to accept a flight back to his home country after they told his supporters he would soon be released.
The Aspen Acres fire surged forward on Tuesday, scorching another 3,000 acres in southern Colorado for a total burn area of more than 150 square miles.
Tens of thousands of customers are without power in Colorado’s Vail Valley after a lightning strike knocked out transmission lines, Holy Cross Energy officials said Tuesday night.
Hundreds of Aspen Acres fire evacuees poured into the state’s Disaster Assistance Center on Monday morning to obtain re-entry passes, anxious to get permission to return to homes spared by the wildfire.
The Wetherill Mesa area of Mesa Verde National Park was closed to the public on Tuesday for a wildfire. The Long Canyon fire also closed the Long House and Step House cliff dwellings.
Noelle Davis was last seen on foot near West Sixth Avenue and Zang Street in Lakewood at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to CBI.
The Aspen Acres fire started one week ago, on June 29, and is now the seventh-largest in the state’s recorded history. By Monday afternoon, it had burned at least 263 homes and four commercial businesses in Pueblo and Custer counties and was 13% contained, officials said.