Summit Fire & EMS dispatched a three-person crew to assist with battling the wildfire that started along Interstate 70 on Thursday, Sept. 7, in Eagle County, according to a Facebook post from the fire protection.
Motorists spent hours stuck in traffic Thursday on Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 6 after a wildfire broke out around 1:25 p.m. near Wolcott. The extended shutdowns of both major arteries through Eagle County left.
Hugh Fairfield-Smith for a long time has driven past the site of Thursday’s Eagle River Fire and thought it was a bad place for a fire. He was right. Fairfield-Smith, the wildland fire specialist with.