The white river national forest said the grizzly creek fire has grown to 1 300 acres as it burns in glenwood canyon about 5 miles east of glenwood.
Satellite images of grizzly creek fire.
The pine gulch fire north of grand junction is the largest of the four consuming more than 85 000 acres in two weeks.
At about 5 38 p m.
The grizzly creek cameron peak and williams fork fires had burned around 25 000 13 000 and 6 000 acres respectively.
A satellite image shows thick smoke coming from the fires.
Landmark markers also available.
The grizzly creek fire facebook page said the grizzly creek fire had grown to 1 300 acres with more than 60 firefighters on scene.
The fire crossed the colorado river and interstate 70 this afternoon establishing itself on the south side.
As of august 17 it was the fourth largest fire in state history and was just 7 percent contained.
The fire started at about 1 30 p m.
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Firefighters were using heavy air attack with four heavy air tankers two single engine air tankers seat and a type i.
Breezie davis an aspen resident and counselor with ajax adventure camp submitted these video clips captured from a raft floating by the fire as it quickly grew.
Updated daily grizzly creek fire perimeter satellite google topo and usfs basemaps.
The photos posted on the grizzly creek fire official facebook page on monday show a broken guardrail in an elevated stretch of the highway and small boulders littering the highway.
As for the other wildfires in the state the grizzly creek fire has burned over 25 000 acres the cameron peak fire has burned over.
Nasa satellite reveals apple fire burn scar.
The grizzly creek fire exploded closing interstate 70 east of town and sending the blaze to the top of the nation s wildfire priority list.
New satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels.
Most of the firefighting effort took place from the air again.