Colorado Officials Issue Warning As Wildfires Blaze In Parts Of The West

Friday, June 16th, 2006 Catastrophe Property

With another tinderbox summer shaping up in much of the West, officials issued red-flag fire warnings for Colorado on Thursday, while in Arizona a roaring blaze forced the evacuation of about 1,000 homes. Wildfires also were burning in Alaska, Utah and New Mexico. At least 60,604 acres have burned in Colorado this year, said Larry Helmerick, spokesman for the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center. That compares with 41,048 acres for all of 2005. It was still far below the 619,029 that burned in 2002.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-15-western-wildfires_x.htm

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