Nearly every day in the past week, firefighters across the county have been responding to fire-related calls.
Credit: John F. Russell (Steamboat Pilot & Today) Author: Dylan Anderson (Steamboat Pilot & Today) Published: 11:02 AM MDT May 7, 2021 Updated: 11:02 AM MDT May 7, 2021
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. On Saturday evening, someone driving on Colorado Highway 131 saw some smoke and called 911. The call went to volunteer firefighters with the Yampa Fire Protection District, who raced out to the scene.
It wasn’t much. An agriculture burn from earlier in the day had continued to smolder and sparked itself back to life around 8 p.m. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire without it spreading.