Summit County Citizens Voice

1,500 firefighters now battling dangerous Front Range blaze

The June 15 map of the High Park Fire in Larimer County, Colorado. Click on the image to download the full-size pdf version from the Larimer County website.

SUMMIT COUNTY — The 52,000-acre High Park Fire, burning on private, state and federal and in Larimer County, Colorado, is now reported as 20 percent contained. A spot fire on the north side of Poudre Canyon has grown to 200 acres, even with several teams of elite firefighters attacking the fire with aerial support. Fire officials also released the most detailed list so far of structures destroyed by the fire, organized by area:

• Solider Canyon – 1
• Missile Silo Rd (29C) – 1
• Cloudy Pass – 1
• Picnic Rock – 1
• Pine Acres – 5
• Stratton Park – 21
• Poudre Canyon – 17
• Spring Valley – 3
• Old Flowers – 1
• Whale Rock – 40
• Paradise Park – 12
• Tip Top – 2
• Rist Creek – 7
• Total to Date – 112

Up-to-date maps and daily progression maps are online at Larimer.org/HighParkFire.

Larimer County is opening a one-stop disaster recovery center, where victims of the fire will be able to receive services and get information on County, State, and CSU services. The center opens Friday (June 15) at 7 a.m. 7:00 a.m. at Johnson Hall on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins.

More updated information is online at the Larimer County Emergency Services blog. Real-time updates stream at Twitter from @LarimerSheriff and at the #HighParkFire hashtag.

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