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...winds of up to 50 miles an hour propelled the 4,000-acre wildfire and forced dozens of residents to flee the Pike National Forest. Residents of about 75 homes in Deckers and surrounding mountain communities were told to leave, Douglas County...
...Moving even faster was a second wildfire in central Colorado burning on 30,000 acres of private land and in the Pike National Forest, west of Colorado Springs. Gov. Bill Owens, who visited Glenwood Springs, also got a look at the Pike forest...
...who watched the blaze from Florissant after he and his wife left their three-story log home on the edge of the Pike National Forest. Another bishop resigns NEW YORK (AP) -- An auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York...
...Colorado to help battle forest fires. The crew left from Duluth to help battle the blaze that started in Colorado's Pike National Forest last Saturday and has since burned 90,000 acres. A second Minnesota crew of 20 firefighters was scheduled to...
...prison and ordered to pay $250,000 in fines. At the time the fire broke out, Barton was assigned to patrol the Pike National Forest in central Colorado to enforce a fire ban imposed because of a drought. "I'm shocked and, with a lot of other...
...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 time in at least a quarter century. Gov. Owens issued a statewide ban on fires and...
...June with setting Colorado's largest-ever wildfire. That fire, about 40 miles southwest of Denver in the Pike National Forest, has burned about 137,760 acres and was 90 percent contained Sunday. Barton has pleaded innocent to the federal...