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Fast-acting homeowners got a wildfire under control soon after it was sparked by a lightning strike in Missouri Heights Thursday afternoon, Roaring Fork Fire Rescue Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Issel said Thursday night.
The wildfire broke out at about 5:30 p.m. along Wind River Road, a sparsely developed area south of Fender Lane. A thunderstorm was rolling through the area at the time.
“The lightning up in Missouri Heights was just crazy,” Issel said.
Mallory Meyer, a resident of the house, said they saw the lightning strike and about a minute later saw flames 100 yards away.
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A house in Missouri Heights sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage after a fire Friday night, but all four occupants self-evacuated without injury.
“All in all, with no occupants and no firefighters injured, we were pretty happy with the outcome,” Kevin Issel, deputy chief of operations for Roaring Fork Fire District, said Saturday morning.
The fire call came in around 10 p.m. Friday, and Roaring Fork Fire District, Carbondale Rural Fire and Protection District and Eagle County Sheriff’s Office responded to the house at the corner of Elk Range Drive and Fender Lane. The house is about 2.5 miles from Highway 82.