Firefighting crews are battling three fires in one of the state’s driest regions of Northwest Colorado.
The largest of the fires, the Brush Creek Fire, has grown to 450 acres, but ground crews and tankers now have that blaze 30 percent contained and have kept it away from a communication tower. The fire is burning in steep, rocky, uninhabited terrain 30 miles south of Rangely on BLM land in Garfield County.
The six-acre Bear Creek Fire southwest of Meeker is half contained. That fire had threatened to overrun oil and gas facilities in Rio Blanco County but ground crews have been able to stop the progress of that fire.
The Powell Fire, burning in pinion/juniper trees northwest of Meeker, has grown to 250 acres. The Powell Fire is burning on BLM and private land and is being fought by tankers and ground crews.
Nancy Lofholm: 970-256-1957, nlofholm@denverpost.com or twitter.com/nlofholm
