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The fires varied in size but have already forced several evacuations and pre-evacuation notices, closed a national park, and the Deer Creek Fire near the Utah state line has already destroyed at least five buildings.
The South Rim Fire and other western slope blazes led to three Colorado counties being declared disasters. See the latest map of the fires.
A rapidly growing and still-uncontained fire that's already destroyed five buildings in eastern Utah is fast approaching the state line with Colorado.
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A fire in eastern Utah has grown rapidly to over 10,000 acres and is 0% contained, as of Monday. The Deer Creek Fire has already claimed five buildings in the area. More than 300 firefighters, 10 fire engines, three helicopters, a plane, and other resources are fighting the fire.
LA SAL, San Juan County — No injuries were reported, but a fire engine was damaged when a massive "fire vortex" formed within a fire burning in southeast Utah over the weekend. A massive fire vortex damaged a fire engine during Utah's Deer Creek Fire. The fire has burned over 10,000 acres and remains 0% contained, with evacuations ongoing.
A new fire in the southeastern Utah town of La Sal has forced county officials to tell nearby residents to leave the area.
A large vortex or "firenado" formed over the Deer Creek Fire in San Juan County, Utah over the weekend, officials said. Dramatic footage from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) showed flames from the fire being sucked up into a dense, swirling cloud of black smoke.
A 10,058-acre Utah fire has crossed over the border into Colorado as the Southwest continues to experience wildfires, including one that created a vortex of flames
The Denver area could see smoke and haze on Tuesday morning from wildfires burning in northern Arizona and southern Utah. The smoke on Tuesday morning is likely to be the most noticeable we've seen so far this year in Denver.
Four wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, prompting a slew of mandatory evacuations, and a fifth fire is approaching from Utah, federal officials said in Sunday morning ...