Hot weather and dry conditions favored wildfires burning on more than 1,250 acres around Colorado on Sunday evening, including fires near where homes have been built in forests northwest of Fort Collins, and southwest of metro Denver near Bailey, where firefighters were deployed to suppress flames.
But a lightning-sparked wildfire that was burning on 846 acres south of Salida above 9,000 feet elevation in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness has been handled to maximize environmental benefits — clearing beetle-ravaged spruce trees.
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