DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has closed about 100 square miles (nearly 260 square kilometers) of public land straddling the Colorado-Wyoming state line because of a wildfire.
About 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) of the Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest in northern Colorado was closed Friday. A day earlier, about 75 square miles (194 square kilometers) of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest in southern Wyoming was closed.
The wildfire has burned about 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) in Wyoming, destroying a home and two outbuildings. About 400 residences have been evacuated in 10 small communities.
Crews haven’t been able to cut fire lines around any significant distance of the perimeter. Fire managers were encouraged Friday because the flames had moved from dense forests full of beetle-killed trees into areas with mostly grass and brush that burn with less intensity.
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