Four of the five wildfires burning in Colorado have together consumed more than 19,300 acres, according to fire officials. How much Colorado land the fifth has burned is unknown.

A firefighter battling the Forsyth Fire in southern Utah near Pine Valley was injured this week and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital.

A fire-fueled thunderstorm cloud can form on top of a wildfire’s smoke plume, allowing the plume to grow vertically very quickly, Neil Lareau, a scientist and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, told the Sacramento Bee in 2018.

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Four fires burning more than 20,000 acres on Colorado’s Western Slope are still mostly uncontained, and a 14,000-acre fire that started in Utah is now firmly in Colorado as of Wednesday.

Crews are fighting five western slope blazes, including the fast-growing Turner Gulch Fire. See the latest map of the Colorado fires.

The Monroe Canyon wildfire in central Utah has now burned more than 5,000 acres in just two days and remains at zero containment, officials said on Tuesday.

According to Utah Fire Info, more than 71,000 acres have burned this year, just 20,000 acres short of what burned all of last year.

A 41-year-old man is accused of firing roughly 150 rounds at law enforcement officers in a "terrifying" incident in suburban Utah, officials said. Benjamin Lewis Hansen is facing more than 50 charges,