DENVER – Firefighters battling wildfires across Colorado’s Western Slope are making gradual progress slowing fire growth and increasing containment, officials said Saturday.
Four of the state’s actively growing wildfires reported minimal growth Friday into Saturday, with afternoon rain helping fire crews on Colorado’s largest wildfire, the 15,413-acre Turner Gulch fire near Gateway.
Fire crews increased containment on the 2,274-acre Sowbelly fire to 50% as of Saturday morning, according to federal fire maps. The fire is burning in the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area near Delta…