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Lightner Creek Fire Update

Four Corners Public Radio
Published June 27, 2012 at 2:30 PM MDT
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Lightner Creek Fire is located 1.5 mi up from the junction of County Roads 207 (Lightner Creek)/208 (Dry Fork). Two helicopters and a single engine airtanker are working to keep the fire from spreading uphill.  Pre-evacuation orders for 60 homes on CR 207/208.  Durango Zone Interagency Type III Team on scene, engines from Durango Fire and Rescue, Upper Pine and Fort Lewis Mesa.  CR 207/208 are closed.  Still estimated at 25 acres.

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