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We've got our first wild fire in our corner of The Four Corners.
This one started up this afternoon on the foot slope of Sleeping Ute Mountain, south of Cortez, Colorado. I think it's on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, or very close to the edge of it. About five miles from our place. Plenty of irrigated fields and roads for fire dykes between us and it, but too close for comfort. Most likely ignited from a lightning strike.
Multiple fire agencies including the San Juan Hotshots have responded to a wildfire that erupted Friday afternoon on Ute Mountain Ute tribal land south of Cortez.
The blaze, dubbed the Mud Creek Fire 2, was reported to the Durango Fire Interagency Dispatch Center at 2:59 p.m. It was burning in remote piñon-sage terrain on Ute Mountain Ute tribal land about 3 miles east of Ute Mountain and 5 miles west of Cortez Municipal Airport.
It was located at the remote western end of Whiskey Road, according to the Durango dispatch center.
Other agencies included Bureau of Indian Affairs fire crews and Bureau of Land Management. Type 2 and Type 3 crews, said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.
Peter Ortego, general counsel of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, said two Type 1 single-engine airtankers were supporting the firefight, along with one Type 3 SEAT and two Helitac helicopters.
Initially reported as a 1-acre fire, the fire’s footprint grew quickly to more than 10 acres, sending up a plume of smoke that was seen for more than 30 miles.
At 5:55 p.m., Ortego estimated the fire had grown to 30 to 35 acres. No structures were at risk, he said.
https://www.the-journal.com/articles/wildfire-erupts-near-ute-mountain-south-of-cortez/?fbclid=IwAR1a63lBrwEqYf15PTcJNm1PFlcxujPVGYbT8Ti54j5CzXOaiPKwHrgdguc
The blaze, dubbed the Mud Creek Fire 2, was reported to the Durango Fire Interagency Dispatch Center at 2:59 p.m. It was burning in remote piñon-sage terrain on Ute Mountain Ute tribal land about 3 miles east of Ute Mountain and 5 miles west of Cortez Municipal Airport.
It was located at the remote western end of Whiskey Road, according to the Durango dispatch center.
Other agencies included Bureau of Indian Affairs fire crews and Bureau of Land Management. Type 2 and Type 3 crews, said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.
Peter Ortego, general counsel of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, said two Type 1 single-engine airtankers were supporting the firefight, along with one Type 3 SEAT and two Helitac helicopters.
Initially reported as a 1-acre fire, the fire’s footprint grew quickly to more than 10 acres, sending up a plume of smoke that was seen for more than 30 miles.
At 5:55 p.m., Ortego estimated the fire had grown to 30 to 35 acres. No structures were at risk, he said.
https://www.the-journal.com/articles/wildfire-erupts-near-ute-mountain-south-of-cortez/?fbclid=IwAR1a63lBrwEqYf15PTcJNm1PFlcxujPVGYbT8Ti54j5CzXOaiPKwHrgdguc
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