Colorado Wildfires: Crews Bring Largest Fire Under 34% Containment as Growth Slows

Get to know the “Super Scooper” airplanes fighting wildfires in Colorado

They look like airplanes a child might build with Legos, or scribble with red and yellow crayons. They are boxy and potbellied, maybe because they are basically flying boats with really long wings. Their cartoon-worthy name — Super Scoopers — belies their serious mission as aerial firefighters. As these Super Scoopers have been swooping onto Blue Mesa Reservoir this week to skim up tank loads of water, they have become the darlings of selfie-gra…

Colorado wildfires: Crews bring largest fire under 34% containment as growth slows

DENVER — Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Thursday.

Delaware First Responders Head to Colorado to Help Battle Massive Wildfire

Three first responders with the Delaware Forest Service are being deployed to Grand Junction, Colorado to assist with the containment of a wildfire currently burning over 15,000 acres.

Colorado wildfires: 15,000-acre Turner Gulch fire is 9% contained, officials say

DENVER — After a week of rapid growth, crews battling the largest fire on Colorado’s Western Slope have finally begun to contain the flames, fire officials said.Three of the four still-spreading fires in western Colorado were sparked July 10 during…

Inside the burn zone of Turner Gulch fire, Colorado’s largest active wildfire

The largest wildfire currently burning in Colorado, the Turner Gulch fire, had scorched 13,984 acres of Mesa County as of Wednesday night, fire officials said. RELATED: Colorado wildfires: Four Western Slope fires growing on thousands of acres Three of the four active fires in western Colorado were sparked last Thursday during a lightning storm. The 2,274-acre Sowbelly fire, which hasn’t grown since Monday, was started by the same storm. Smoke f…

Delaware Wildland Firefighters Headed to Colorado

A newly built Type 6 wildland fire engine, E-613, with a crew of three Delaware firefighters left the the Blackbird State Forest Thursday – headed for the Turner Gulch wildfire in Grand Junction, Colorado. The crew will help with containment of the fire – they begin their 14-day assignment on Sunday. The Delaware Forest Service expects to continue supporting wildland fires in the western states through the rest of the summer and into early fall.…