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1,200-acre Lake County fire prompts evacuations near Leadville

A new wildfire near Leadville has scorched more than 1,000 acres and prompted mandatory evacuations for those living west of town, according to emergency officials.

Video from the U.S. Forest Service shows smoke rising from the Willow fire burning in the San Isabel National Forest on Monday, June 29, 2026. (Screenshot from U.S. Forest Service video)

A student at Colorado Mountain College's Leadville campus celebrates graduation day last year. The commencement day ski-down is a tradition at the school, which has a ski area operations program that prepares students for jobs in the ski industry. (Benjamin Suddendorf/Provided by Colorado Mountain College)

Last-minute effort saves cap-and-gown ski-down graduation tradition on mountain campus

By John Meyer

April 30, 2026 at 12:45 p.m.

Mother Nature and students in the school's ski area operations program collaborated to save the...

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