The Badger Creek Fire has burned 2,300 acres after it made a large, wind-driven run Monday in southern Albany County on the Medicine Bow National Forest and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the fire.
The commercial truck was traveling at a speed too fast for the steep grade of the roadway, and too fast for a vehicle that size. The rig reportedly weighed 140,000 pounds.
Matthew Elliott's sister says in a Facebook post that Elliott went out hunting around 6:30 a.m. Friday and did not return. But he has now been found safe.
Sally Jewel, U.S. Secretary of Interior and Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, said that the Albany County Ames Monument makes the registry.
Stuart Nelson with Albany County School District No. 1 says while LJHS and LHS are on lockout, things at the junior high are "a little tighter," with people being escorted as they enter the building.