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Lefthand Canyon fire still burning
Paola Farer Web Producer
BOULDER COUNTY - A fire has burned between 10 and 15 acres in Lefthand Canyon, around mile marker 8, near Jamestown Road.
The fire is burning on federal land in the Roosevelt National Forest, says Larry Helmerick with the Rocky Mountain Regional Coordination Center.
An air tanker made two drops of fire retardant on the fire before it had to back off because of windy conditions.
The fire is burning in rugged terrain. A 20-person hand crew is on scene. The closest town to the fire is Jamestown, which is about three miles away. No homes are threatened at this time.
Helmerick says the dry ground combined with windy weather has made for red flag fire conditions along the Front Range all the way south into New Mexico.
Firefighters are also tending to a five to six-acre wildfire burning in Larimer County in the Storm Mountain area northwest of Drake.
Earlier in the day, dry conditions and light winds spread a house fire in Castle Rock into open space. That fire burned 10 acres.