Mile High Youth Corps member John Knudsen set fire to a pile of tree debris alongside U.S. Forest Service firefighters near the Bridge Crossing picnic grounds in Hatch Gulch Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, near Deckers, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
March 9, 2022
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Changing snowfall makes it harder to fight fire with fire
Dripping flaming fuel as they go, a line of workers slowly descends a steep, snow-covered hillside above central Colorado's South Platte River, torching piles of woody debris that erupt into flames shooting two stories high.