Crews are calling this the freeman fire. Smoke can be seen from eagle. Homes in the area the receipt free evacuation warnings, but no word if they are mandatory just yet. Still not clear how it started. Katie, it is really dry out there. Dry and very windy. Unfortunately todays weather acts were not affect firefighting efforts in eagle county. We are ge conditions ushered in today and watches and warnings will be in effect starting at 11 00. A high wind warning for much of the high country. Llw humidities, gusty wind. Warm and dry conditions. Current wind gust right now at 31 at 31 Miles Per Hour primarily from the sourre west. Denver right now seeing wind about 13 Miles Per Hour. In terms of our condiiions, plenty of sunshine today. If you are headed out the door right now 67 degrees. We are going to be in the 80s before a bit cool down this week. New developments after someone was shot outside of a motel on colfax yesterday. Police believe this man is the man who pulled the trigger.
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Warning of near critical wildfire conditions. The most atrisk areas are in the southern colorado mountains and valleys. Hazardous conditions also stretch into wyoming and montana. High winds and extra warm temperatures these days certainly arent helping the cause. We want to bring in meteorologist danielle grant. We could use moisture at this point. By midweek we could find until then, it will be all about the wind. It will be extremely gusty. You can see red flag warnings in place most of eastern colorado. Denver not included, but that will continue throughout the day tomorrow. You can see winds picking up overnight in the foothills gusting in the 50mileperhour range by 9 00 tomorrow morning continuing and moving on to the i25 corridor between about 20 and 30 Miles Per Hour wind speeds for us. We are not done yet. Already in place anticipating wind gusts about 45 Miles Per Hour for most of eastern colorado. A very windy next couple of days. We will have some sunshine throughout tomorr
Crews are out on frying pan road fighting a wildfire. Evacuations could be possible if the fire continues to spread. Well update you if anything changes. To the north of that fire, crews spent the night keeping their eyes peeled after a fire in gypsum were destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The threat of more fires is very real as in colorado. Boulder county is under a red flag warning through this evening. The National Weather service is warning of near critical wildfire conditions. The most at risk areas are in the southern colorado mountains and valleys. Hazardous conditions are stretching up into wyoming and montana. Lets check in with belen de leon now. Our warm weather is contributing to that fire danger. It is drying out the fuels and these warm temperatures arent helping and get a handle on the fires existing. Lets take you to our maps. I want to show you where were at so far with the winds because we have stronger winds in and around the foothills a
Homes are being built with, into the wild land areas, and its getting harder to fight the fires, plus we have a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are being threatened on a regular basis. Smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as vail. The fire is roughly 300 acres in size. In the newsroom, russella thon, molly, back to you. Back to you. You. Some grass caught fire earlier, the good news, the fire is 100 contained. It never threatened structures. Its unknown what exactly caused this fire. Now lets check in with meteorologist Stacy Donaldson with the first alert. The fire dang is sticking around until tomorrow . Absolutely, and be aware that it is so dry, with the high fire danger, even a so winds are definitely stronger, 2040mile an hour winds, current gusts for the front range and Eastern Plains arent as intense, but will be into tomorrow as we continue to hang on to the high fire danger. But we have a high wind warning through tomorrow night. In t