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Colorado fires unite delegation in Washington (updated)

By | 06.27.12 | 1:05 pm

The nine-member Colorado delegation to Washington announced today it is working together as a bipartisan group to wring as much help as it can from the federal government to address the wildfires presently raging across the state, fouling the air across hundreds of miles of the Front Range, racking up enormous sums in damages and displacing tens of thousands of residents.

As High Park blaze rages, Colorado delegation presses gov’t for resources

By | 06.12.12 | 9:47 am

Set by a Saturday lightning strike, according to the Larimer County sheriff’s office, the High Park Fire burning west of Fort Collins in Colorado has burned more than 43,000 acres and taken one life. It’s already one of the worst fires in Colorado history and, fueled by the dry conditions and tinderbox beetle-kill forests that have become the norm here, it is a harbinger of fires to come.