{"id":22788,"date":"2020-05-07T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64532"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:03:22","slug":"illegal-campfire-near-carbondale-ignites-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/illegal-campfire-near-carbondale-ignites-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal campfire near Carbondale ignites wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Firefighters found stacked wood near an illegal campfire that was the cause of a wildland fire on Tuesday. The campfire was in the South Thompson Creek area about 11 miles southwest of Carbondale.<\/strong>
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The exact scenario that federal land managers aimed to prevent by enacting a fire ban this spring unfolded anyway this week when a fire broke out about 11 miles southwest of Carbondale.<\/p>\n

The fire was discovered Monday afternoon in the South Thompson Creek area in the vicinity of Parsnip Flats. \u201cIt was an escaped campfire,\u201d said White River National Forest public information officer David Boyd.<\/p>\n

A heavy helicopter and 15 firefighters from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire and Aviation Unit were sent to the scene Tuesday. They contained the fire after it burned nearly 4 acres in dead and downed aspen trees and other timber, Boyd said. The helicopter was supporting the ground crews and making water drops. No structures were threatened.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire was disturbing to federal authorities because it meant someone was ignoring the fire ban in place for all national forest lands in Colorado and because someone didn\u2019t take the proper steps of putting out a fire and leaving it unattended, according to Boyd.<\/p>\n

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