Three wildland firefighters killed in burnover incident at…
Vehicle Fire Colorado-Utah Colorado in Colorado-Utah, Colorado: Three US wildland firefighters were killed and two others suffered burn injuries on Saturday while battling the fast-growing Knowles and Gore fires on the Colorado-Utah border in Mesa County, Colorado. The US Department of the Interior described the event as a burnover incident in which crews deployed emergency fire shelters before being overrun by advancing flames. The two surviving firefighters were hospitalized with burn injuries, and the Knowles and Gore fires later merged with other blazes to form the Snyder Fire. Colorado Governor Jared Polis verbally declared a disaster emergency and authorized deployment of the Colorado National Guard to assist with firefighting efforts.