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The Roaring Fork Valley is set to enhance its wildfire detection capabilities by installing panoramic cameras at Crown Mountain in Basalt. The cameras, equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology, rotate 360 degrees and can detect...

Pano AI camera to be added in midvalley backcountry

30 years ago Sept. 12-16, 1992 The 10th Mountain Division held its 50th reunion celebration in Vail at Camp Hale in Eagle County. More than 1,600 reunion members visited Vail for the biggest gathering of...

Authorities are telling the public to expect “potentially large amounts of smoke ... particularly in the early afternoon” between El Jebel and Gypsum and not to panic.

Week of Jan. 19, 2017

The FAA said some entities were notified that an essential navigation aid used for the Aspen airport was taken down during bad weather last week, though local officials said the efforts clearly weren’t enough.

An airplane navigational aid taken down last week by the Federal Aviation Administration with no notice to local authorities should be back online Friday.

Chris Dillmann/cdillmann@vaildaily.com EAGLE — The Monday evening update on the Sylvan Fire south of Eagle: More rain, more containment and no smoke. The only activity on the wildfire as it enters its third week is smoldering activity, said Kelsha Anderson, a public information officer with the White River National Forest. That is, unless you count the large rainbow that hung over the fire area as rain fell Monday afternoon. “They haven’t seen any smoke today,” Anderson said around 7 p....

The Sylvan Fire remains at 65% containment as of Sunday, smoldering in an area of 3,792 acres – just under 6 square miles – located near Sylvan Lake State Park south of the town of Eagle. At the height of the massive effort to stop the fire, 425 personnel were in Eagle with a Type I management team which had access to a large pool of resources. As of Sunday, the cost on the blaze has totaled $6,365,000. On Saturday, a Type III team had assumed management of the Sylvan Fire. On Sunday, 132 p...