Firefighters continue to battle the Indian Gulch fire in Jefferson County but U.S. Highway 6 reopened at 2 p.m., fire officials said.
The fire, which started on Sunday, has burned 1,502 acres and is 77 percent contained, according to federal and local fire officials.
Firefighters plan to continue an air attack today, including the use of helicopters, single engine airplanes and perhaps an air tanker, to support ground crews working the fire.
The fire, west of Golden, is burning in rugged, steep back country, mostly through brush with some sparse areas of timber.
“There are currently no structures threatened” by the fire, a media release from fire officials said this morning. No one has been injured in the fire and no structures have burned.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
