ENGLEWOOD - Friday's news from the governor and state wildland fire experts came as no surprise: Colorado faces a potentially devastating wildfire season. Possibly, officials said, the worst since two of the state's most destructive - the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, which burned 347 homes in Colorado Springs and killed two residents; and the 2013 Black Forest fire, which destroyed 489 homes and killed two people. "With 63 percent of normal snowpack in southeast Colorado and into the headwaters of the Arkansas River drainage, there's heightened fire awareness," Gov.
Colorado State Experts Predict Potentially Devastating Wildfire Season In 2018
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