DENVER (KDVR) — Firefighters found 24 abandoned campfires in the Pike-San Isabel National Forests & Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands over Memorial Day weekend, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
The Forest Service said on Thursday that firefighters also responded to four wildfires across the forest during the holiday weekend, with three determined to be caused by humans and one the result of lightning.
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“The wildfires were quickly contained but triggered the reminder that we all must do our part to not let a wildfire start,” the Forest Service said in a news release.
The federal agency warned it “takes only one spark” in the “wrong place at the right time” to start a wildfire that can “put human lives and natural and cultural resources and infrastructure at risk.”…