Wildfire Mitigation Helps Firefighters' Control Wagonwheel Gap Fire

On February 10th 2017 at 7:49 am, Boulder Mountain Fire was called to a report of a wildfire in the 400 block of Wagonwheel Gap Road. The fire was observed at 1 acre when wildfire crews first arrived and spreading quickly with the terrain and gusty winds.

Wildfire crews quickly went into protecting the dozen structures that were immediately threatened by the growing wildfire. In total, the wildfire grew to approximately 5 acres and was contained with no structures lost or damaged.

The wildfire was burning on properties that had been previously mitigated which helped wildfire crews get control of the wildfire before it turned into a larger incident.