Colorado, Western Slope and fire Turner Gulch
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Fire officials are hosting a meeting on the Turner Gulch and Wright Draw fires at the Gateway Community Center on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The meeting will be live-streamed on the Turner Gulch and Wright Draw Fire Facebook page.
Four of the five wildfires burning in Colorado have together consumed more than 19,300 acres, according to fire officials. How much Colorado land the fifth has burned is unknown.
The largest wildfire burning in Colorado, the Turner Gulch fire, had scorched 15,071 acres in Mesa County as of Thursday morning, fire officials said. That's more than half the burn area from all the wildfires active on Colorado's Western Slope combined.
A haze of smoke from wildfires burning in Colorado wafted into counties along the Interstate 70 mountain corridor on Wednesday, prompting an air quality health advisory. The smoke is from four wildfires burning in
Firefighters continue to battle several wildfires raging on the Western Slope. The Turner Gulch fire nearly doubled in size overnight to about 14,000 acres with zero percent containment. The fire continues to spread in Unaweep Canyon and evacuations are in place along Highway 141.
The Turner Gulch Fire in Unaweep Canyon northeast of Gateway grew another 5,000 acres between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, burning 13,984 acres south of Colorado State Highway 141.
The Turner Gulch Fire burning since Thursday in Mesa County has exploded in size overnight, more than tripling to 8,140 acres as of Tuesday morning.
A Colorado Springs fire crew is in Mesa County today to help fight a wildfire that grew nearly 7,000 acres overnight.