UPDATE: Five lightning-sparked fires expand across 5,349 acres in southwestern Colorado.
Federal land managers ordered full suppression of both fires, even though the national policy calls for letting fires in remote forests burn when possible to let forests become more resilient and healthy. But the difficulties of reaching flames due to steepness and the heavy dead and fallen trees in those areas forced firefighters to back off.
“The fires spread laterally but they didn’t make runs” on Wednesday, Williams said Thursday morning. “We anticipate scattered showers, lower temperatures, and higher relative humidity – which reduces fire behavior,” she said. “We don’t expect rapid growth of either of these fires if the weather pans out as forecast. But they aren’t going away just because of some cloud cover.”
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