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Colorado residents "nervous" as wildfire comes close to town of Meeker on the Western Slope

A wildfire close to Meeker in western Colorado has doubled in size. The Lee Fire west of the historic town has now burned an ...

Lee Fire grows to 6th largest in Colorado history

RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — The Lee Fire in Rio Blanco County has grown to the sixth largest in Colorado history, according to ...
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Lee Fire now marks fifth-largest wildfire in state history

The Lee Fire in Rio Blanco County has grown to be the fifth-largest wildfire in Colorado state history, according to ...

When Colorado wildfires threatened this Western Slope town, neighbors showed up for each other

When a 60,000-acre wildfire is breathing down the neck of a small northwestern Colorado town, the locals don’t freeze. The ...

Meeker couple houses fire crews battling western Colorado wildfires

While some residents in Meeker self-evacuated, one couple stayed behind and provided firefighters with a place to stay as ...

Lee Fire near Meeker surpasses 100,000 acres as fire crews get some containment

The largest of several wildfires in northwestern Colorado grew to over 100,000 acres overnight, prompting new evacuations.
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Meeker-area fire threatens Garfield County, Rifle prison evacuated

A wildfire outside Meeker has quickly grown to the southeast and reached nearly 90,000 acres in size, resulting in some ...
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Lee fire in northwestern Colorado, fueled by strong winds, grows to 60,000 acres

After a spot fire spread into the Colorado 64 corridor west of Meeker, firefighters stopped the flames from making a run ...