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Even through a glass door, a full-grown mountain lion staring inside your home can be quite scary as Grand County resident Sarah Bole discovered Thursday evening.

Thorne Creek firefighters battling steep terrain, hot conditions but optimistic and last updated 2021-07-30 11:05:38-04 THOMPSON FALLS — Some people are still under evacuation orders because of the huge Thorne Creek Fire west of Thompson Falls, which has now consumed just under 12,000 acres. However, firefighters believe theyre making good headway with protection measures. Its been a scary couple of days on the Lower Clark Fork, as the Thorne Creek Fire continues active burning, engulfing ...

Grand County has gone from low fire danger to very high fire danger in just over a day.

In 2017, the Peak 2 Fire ignited near Breckenridge and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in the Peak 7 neighborhood and the surrounding area. A year later, the Buffalo Mountain Fire burned its...

According to data from state agencies that track snowpack, the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California have seen 77% of its normal snowfall, Colorado basins are at 93%, and Utah basins are at 82%.

Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Schelly Olson, the assistant chief for Grand Fire, stands among all that remains of her Grand Lake home on Nov. 13, 2020 after it burned down in the East Troublesome fire last year. Nov. 13, 2020. As Schelly Olson walked around the charred rubble of what was her Grand Lake home, she pointed to a pile of things that survived the second-largest wildfire in state history.  “You can see my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law piled all of my silver from my grandmot...

Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Hundreds of homes like this one were destroyed in the East Troublesome fire last year. All that’s left of many is the stone chimney. Dec. 31, 2021. When the East Troublesome fire hurtled towards Matthew Reed-Tolonen’s Grand Lake home last October, he made sure to lock up his family’s fireproof safes before they evacuated.  “That was like the marriage license, birth certificates, all that kind of stuff,” Reed-Tolonen said. “I thought I was good. I wa...