...natural firebreak and was just a half-mile from an undetermined number of the up to 200 homes at risk, fire spokesman Joe Colwell said Friday morning. No homes had burned, and firefighters set up sprinklers to dampen the most vulnerable homes as...

...have a firm figure Monday night. "Part of the problem is we just haven't been able to get in there and see," said Joe Colwell, a fire information officer. The Forest Service on Monday closed the Pike National Forest indefinitely for the first...