’Epic dryness’ feeding Western wildfires

In the Rocky Mountain West, firefighters say they’ve never seen the trees and grasses this dry so early in the summer. "It’s epic dryness," says Beth Lund, leader of the incident management team assigned to the High Park Fire, which has burned 135 square miles near Fort Collins, Colo., and destroyed at least 257 homes. It is now the most destructive in recorded Colorado history. But hardly the only one. Ten separate fires are burning in Colorado, prompting a planned visit Friday by President Obama.