Officials: Wyoming fire season could get bad in midsummer
June 11, 2021 GMT
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Fire season should be about average in Wyoming until about midsummer, when things could begin to heat up, state officials said.
Most of the state is in drought, with extreme drought in parts of south-central and northeastern Wyoming. Gov. Mark Gordon, whose office has set up a website to monitor the situation, urged rural homeowners to take precautions.
“If you haven’t taken and established that fire defensible perimeter around your house, you will lose it,” Gordon said at a news conference Thursday in Cheyenne.
Three relatively small wildfires were burning in Wyoming. The biggest was a 1.5-square-mile (4 square kilometer) fire north of Osage in rural Weston County.
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