Visitors walk back to the shuttle as rain falls over the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area in Aspen on Thursday, June 24, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) Cooler temperatures and ongoing rain showers have convinced local and federal fire officials to drop from Stage 2 to Stage 1 fire restrictions at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The easing on restrictions was coordinated by the White River National Forest and the Colorado River Valley field office of the Bureau of Land Management as well as Pitkin, Eagle and Summit counties. Garfield and Mesa counties had already been in Stage 1 and will remain. “Most of the forest has received enough rain to take the edge off,” David Boyd, public information officer for the White River National Forest, said Tuesday. “The rains really helped get us out of the extreme fire danger, which is what triggered Stage 2.”