Firefighters and air attack crews responded to a 2-acre wildfire Tuesday near western Durango city limits – a reminder that despite several weeks of above-average rainfall, fire season is still here.
“I think everybody breathes a pretty worthwhile sigh of relief when we start getting rain, but we’re on top of a couple years’ worth of significant drought,” said Hal Doughty, chief of the Durango Fire Protection District. “A couple of days of rain doesn’t make up for a couple of years of drought.”
The fire was reported about noon and was “creeping” through oak brush east of the Twin Buttes subdivision and north of U.S. Highway 160, said Rod Allen, battalion chief for DFPD.
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