Óscar A. Contreras is a Murrow-nominated journalist who has been writing for the E.W. Scripps Company since January 2014.
MESA COUNTY, Colo. — A wildfire that ignited over the weekend in Mesa County has grown to 213 acres and is now 10% contained, according to fire officials who were responding to the second major fire burning in Colorado’s Western Slope Monday.
By Monday, the blaze had been mapped out at 213 acres and “steep inaccessible terrain has made suppression efforts difficult,” they wrote in the most recent post. A Type 3 helicopter, a large airtanker , four single-engine airtankers , multiple engines and a Type 2 hand crew were currently on scene fighting the fire.One of several wildfires burning in Colorado's Western Slope
The fire was reported by the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office at around 12:40 p.m. burning approximately two miles south of Norwood on County Road V44W.
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