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Special to the Daily The White River National Forest has reduced the Sylvan Fire Forest Closure as fire and firefighting activity lessens, but officials stress the need for the public to drive slowly and respect the continuing closures. As of Wednesday afternoon, the fire had burned 3,792 acres – just less than 6 square miles. The fire was 68% contained, and 95 firefighters continued to work on the blaze. As of Wednesday afternoon, the fire’s behavior was described as “creeping” and “smoldering.” The areas remaining in the closure include the areas within the Sylvan Fire perimet...

5 p.m. update: EAGLE — As containment on the Sylvan Fire goes up, personnel assigned to the blaze is going down. On Saturday, the Rocky Mountain Type I Incident Management Team finished its last shift on the fire before turning it over to a local Type III team at 7 p.m. The fire remains at 3,792 acres — nearly 6 square miles — with 394 assigned to the blaze, according to a Saturday morning update, down from a peak of 425 earlier in the week. On the northeastern edge of the fire, the fire line has been completed and is in patrol and monitor status. The power line through the fire was ene...

Noon update: The size of Sylvan Fire — now nine days old — has remained constant at 3,775 acres for the past few days. Containment has increased each of the last three days and currently stands at 27%. With very light fire behavior since the recent rains, more rain likely over the next week, and good progress made toward containing the fire, fire managers are looking at options for the days ahead. These will include keeping sufficient numbers of firefighters on the ground to continue progress towards containment while beginning to right size other parts of the fire organization. Fire man...