Over a thousand firefighters remain battling the Black Forest Fire. They have got it up to seventy-five percent contained. Full containment is expected on Thursday.
It killed two people, burned down four hundred and eighty-three homes, and damaged seventeen houses. Many of the mandatory evacuations, due to the fire, have been lifted, but some do remain in affect.
Investigators have not yet determined the cause of the fire. They are finally able to get near where it is believed to have started.
The Big Meadows Fire is just over six hundred acres, but is listed at seventy-five percent containment. Five of the seven trails closed by the fire have been reopened.
Residents, who had been evacuated from near Rifle, due to the Ward Gulf Fire, are being allowed back home. The fire is now sixty percent contained, after burning nearly five hundred acres.
Other fires, burning throughout the state, have either been completely stopped, or are still being allowed to freely burn as they do not threaten anything. Helicopters continuing working on some of those as a precaution.
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