The 403 fire in Park and Teller counties has burned 1,518 acres, and officials had to push back the estimated date of containment due to 'limited crew availability.”
“The fire has been moving around on the unburned areas, but it has not expanded much beyond the perimeter,” Vigil said, acknowledging the limited numbers of firefighters.
“We do have hot shot crews up there,” she said. “There’s just a demand, with new fires starting throughout the nation — a demand for new firefighters.” The status report said 63 firefighters were deployed to this fire. It was unclear whether federal officials would be able to send up helicopters to drop buckets of water Tuesday due to wind.
Federal fire investigators still were working to determine what ignited this fire, which forced evacuations of two subdivisions last week. The residents since have beenClick markers for details, use buttons to change what wildfires are shown. Map data is automatically updated by government agencies and could lag real-time events.
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