The main story for southern Colorado today will be heat and smoke as we begin end of August. Wildfire smoke is still dominantly from California, but the new fire in Grand County, the Black Mountain..
Seven Western states are under air quality alerts due to raging wildfires, which have forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed hundreds of homes. CNN’s Dan Simon reports on some of the 92 large..
The large California wildfire is still several dozen miles to the southwest, though smoke has settled on the area and many are on edge because the Lake Tahoe Basin has few evacuation routes...
And there are at least a dozen of them. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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