Tag: Sheep Pen Fire
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Fire on Raton Mesa reaches 4k acres, closing parts of Fishers Peak State Park
Firefighters battling four blazes in Las Animas County managed to reach some containment as the blazes continued to expand on Thursday. Nearly all of the acreage burning in the county is from the Post fire on top of the Raton Mesa, which reached 4,213 acres with 25% containment on Thursday. The growth of the fire…
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4 new Las Animas County fires expand to over 2,800 acres
A fire several miles southeast of Trinidad on top of the Raton Mesa expanded to 2,431 acres overnight and was joined by three more blazes in the county on Wednesday. The Post fire was discovered at 1,000 acres a few miles east of Interstate 25 in the southern Las Animas County after igniting naturally on…