Two more wildland fires, sparked by lightning, have burned the U.S. Army’s 240,000-acre Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado, Army officials said.
Both fires started Monday and one is 100percent contained and the other 90 percent contained, said Karen Linne, a spokeswoman for Fort Carson.
Fort Carson oversees the maneuver site.
The Dillingham Fire has burned 4,000 acres in the southwest corner of the site and is 100 percent contained, Linne said.
The Hector Fire on the training site has burned 300 acres and is 90 percent contained.
No structures were burned and no one was injured in the two fires.
Earlier this month the Bridger Fire burned for two weeks on the site. Spreading to bordering private lands, the blaze consumed about 46,000 acres of mostly scrub and brush. The vast majority of property burned in the Bridger Fire was Army-controlled land.
The two current fires were contained to Army property.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
