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At approximately 1 p.m., the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office updated the evacuations in the county from the Lee Fire due to ...
The Lee Fire has grown to over 116,000 acres, making it the fifth largest in state history. It’s also close to Meeker.
New evacuations were called today in Garfield County, on the southern edge of the fire, close to Rifle. The fire is more than ...
The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders on Wednesday on top of the Roan Plateau near Rifle as the Lee ...
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Community meeting for Lee Fire updates

On Monday, Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Response Team 3, alongside several other agencies, held a community meeting in ...
With the Lee Fire already the fifth-largest wildfire in Colorado history, dozens of Garfield and Rio Blanco County residents ...
The Colorado Department of Corrections announced the evacuation of the Rifle Correctional Center on Saturday as the Lee Fire ...
The Lee Fire near Meeker is now over 116,000 acres, fire maps show, and has surpassed the Spring Creek Fire of 2018 as the ...
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Operations in Rifle impacted by Lee Fire

With the big game hunting season around the corner, many hunters are using our State Wildlife Area shooting ranges to ...
Rifle residents are united in the face of uncertainty as the Lee Fire continues to burn Colorado's Western Slope.
Students in Garfield RE-2 schools were supposed to start on Monday, but delayed the start after staff call-ins from the smoke ...