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12:55 a.m.
Sugar Fire contained
By Joe Moylan
12:54 a.m., August 2, 2012 Updated 1:32 p.m.
Firefighters with the Bureau of Land Management, Moffat County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Forest Service are battling a five-acre blaze in Moffat County. The Sugar Fire was ignited by a lightning strike about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday and is currently burning five acres on BLM land off U.S. Highway 40 about 20 miles west of Craig. There are no estimates on containment. No structures are threatened and no injuries have been reported, said officials with the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit late Wednesday night.

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On the record for Aug. 2
August 2, 2012
On the record for Aug. 2
Sugar Fire contained
By Joe Moylan
12:54 a.m., August 2, 2012 Updated 01:32 p.m.
Firefighters with the Bureau of Land Management, Moffat County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Forest Service are battling a five-acre blaze in Moffat County. The Sugar Fire was ignited by a lightning strike about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday and is currently burning five acres on BLM land off U.S. Highway 40 about 20 miles west of Craig. There are no estimates on containment. No structures are threatened and no injuries have been reported, said officials with the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit late Wednesday night.

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News this week showed snowpack in the Yampa River basin has reached 94 percent of median for the date. Do you think Moffat County is out of the woods as far as drought concerns?

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