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Before and after photos of the Colorado wildfires reveal scorched mountaintops and smoke-filled air

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="9845296" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pine-gulch-fire">Pine Gulch Fire</keyword> is the largest in <keyword id="6359726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado">Colorado</keyword>'s history, covering more than 139,000 acres.</li><li>Two other major fires are burning in the state as <keyword id="6359722" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="firefighters">firefighters</keyword> work to control them.</li><li>Colorado and California have both faced a devastating fire season, with California having the second and third largest <keyword id="394841" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="wildfires">wildfires</keyword> in its history this year.</li></ul>Growing to 139,006 acres as of Friday morning, the Pine Gulch fire has become the largest fire in Colorado's history.The Pine Gulch fire was 77% contained and burning mostly US Bureau of Land Management lands north of Grand Junction, leaving buildings and properties relatively unscathed, <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/pine-gulch-largest-wildfire-colorado-history/?trk_msg=DANRKS6ASL1KFEE4R5035NHVT8&amp;trk_contact=PI1LEHEFD3SFJL66JMPO3CR8GK&amp;trk_sid=M2CJ68B5MBNOF3HT3AGU9JK4PG&amp;utm_email=0416B5E2D431542E447B52CE75&amp;g2i_eui=Q%2bEp%2firONwKX0bQ5ZGHPtTiS9ggBiSIb&amp;g2i_source=newsletter&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.denverpost.com%2f2020%2f08%2f27%2fpine-gulch-largest-wildfire-colorado-history%2f&amp;utm_campaign=denver-mile-high-roundup&amp;utm_content=manualmile-high-roundup&amp;utm_content=manual">The Denver Post reported</a>.Two other major fires were burning in Colorado. Firefighters were increasing containment on the Grizzly Creek Fire but there was no containment of the Cameron Peak Fire as of Friday, <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/wildfire/colorado-wildfires-latest-on-fires-burning-statewide-as-pine-gulch-grows-to-largest-in-state-history">the local ABC News affiliate KMGH</a> reported. More than 900 firefighters were battling the fire, which was sparked by a lightening strike on July 31. "The increase in acreage is not due to the fire moving," Jacob Welsh, a spokesman for the fire's management team told <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/08/27/pine-gulch-fire-largest-colorado-wildfire-history/">Colorado Public Radio</a>. "It's due to more accurate mapping."As of Friday, no homes had been lost to the Pine Gulch fire. Grazing area has suffered from the fire, but ranchers were moving livestock out of the fire's range, <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/08/27/pine-gulch-fire-largest-colorado-wildfire-history/">CPR reported</a>. "Fire officials feel the fire is not going to move anywhere on us in a lot of the areas that are secure and being mopped up and controlled right now," Welsh said. The Pine Gulch fire is <a href="https://www.insider.com/pine-gulch-grizzly-creek-cameron-peak-wildfires-colorado-2020-8">one of the three major fires that have spread through Colorado in recent weeks</a> and <keyword id="6361617" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate-change">climate change</keyword> has contributed to the increased severity of Colorado's fire season.According to a <a href="https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/climate-change-co.pdf">2016 report from the Environmental Protection Agency</a>, climate change will likely exacerbate the severity of fires in Colorado in the coming decades, with decreasing water availability and agricultural yields. California faces a similar problem with severe wildfires this year and has experienced the <a href="https://www.insider.com/10000-lightning-strikes-spark-major-fires-in-california-2020-8">second and third biggest fires</a> in the state's history, due in part to extreme heat events.According to <a href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/projected-ranks#:~:text=Global%20temperature%20data%20document%20a,)%2C%20and%201998%2C%20respectively.">NOAA</a>, the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998 and most of the years in the next decade will likely rank as the warmest.

The Pine Gulch fire in Colorado is the largest in the state's history, ripping through more than 139,000 acres

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="94113" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oregon">Oregon</keyword> resident Allison Hargett was camping at Detroit Lake State Park near Salem, Oregon, with her family and friends when they were told to evacuate early Tuesday morning because of the nearby <a href="https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7001/">Beachie Creek Fire</a>.</li><li>As Hargett drove away with her family, she ran out of gas and her friends had to drive her family home. </li><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/oregon-wildfire-beachie-creek-fire-fleeing-trnd/index.html">Hargett told CNN</a> that she had to abandon her car and boat in a parking lot, and she has no idea if they survived the blaze. </li></ul>An Oregon family ran out of gas while fleeing a wildfire on Tuesday morning, and they had to abandon their car and boat in a parking lot to get to safety.Allison Hargett, from Gladstone, Oregon, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/oregon-wildfire-beachie-creek-fire-fleeing-trnd/index.html">told CNN</a> that she, her husband, her 6-year-old daughter, and their friends were camping at Detroit Lake State Park near Salem when they were told to evacuate at around 1 a.m. <a href="https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7001/">because of the Beachie Creek Fire.</a>As they drove away from the campground behind their friends' vehicle, the Hargetts ran out of gas."[Our friends] were in front of us and saw that we pulled over and turned around, tossed their stuff in the back seat and told us to get in and let's go," Hargett told CNN. "They saved us."Hargett recorded video of the Beachie Creek Fire as they drove home — footage shows trees engulfed in flames and an orange sky.The Beachie Creek Fire started on August 16 and has since burned more than 132,000 acres. According to the <a href="https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7001/">National Fire Coordinating Group said</a> the fire is burning "very steep terrain," which makes it more difficult for firefighters to access. The families made it home safely, but Hargett doesn't know the status of her boat or car."We are also devastated to lose our vehicle and boat ... but we are OK at least," she told CNN.Marion County, where Salem is located, declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and issued evacuation orders in multiple cities, <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2020/09/evacuation-orders-issued-in-marion-county-as-wildfire-spreads.html">according to Oregon Live</a>."We care deeply about the safety of all of our community members. The extreme fire activity in the area poses an imminent danger to anyone who chooses to remain in the evacuated area," Marion County Sheriff Joe Kast said in a statement to Oregon Live. "I encourage anyone still in the Santiam Canyon to leave immediately following the deputies out of the area. I cannot say when the conditions will allow deputies and other emergency responders to return to the area to render assistance. Please leave now."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/california-record-acres-burned-wildfires-this-year-2020-9">More than 2 million acres of California have been burned by wildfires this year in a new record</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/big-basin-redwoods-closed-for-a-year-following-wildfire-damage-2020-9">The public won't be allowed back to Big Basin Redwoods Park for at least year after wildfires in California made it too dangerous for visitors</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/pine-gulch-wildfire-is-the-largest-in-colorado-history-2020-8">The Pine Gulch fire in Colorado is the largest in the state's history, ripping through more than 139,000 acres</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/california-wildfires-burned-ancient-redwoods-but-forest-survived-blaze-2020-8">California wildfires burned hundreds of ancient redwoods</a></li></ul>

An Oregon family fleeing wildfires ran out of gas as they drove away from the blaze, and had to abandon their car and boat to get to safety

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Three major wildfires have scorched <keyword id="6359726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="colorado">Colorado</keyword> this week: the Pine Gulch, the Grizzly Creek, and the Cameron Peak Fires.</li><li>The largest, Pine Gulch, is now the fourth largest in Colorado history.</li><li><keyword id="6361617" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate-change">Climate change</keyword> has increased the severity of <keyword id="41285" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wildfire">wildfire</keyword> season in the western US. </li></ul>Three major wildfires — the Pine Gulch, the Grizzly Creek, and the Cameron Peak Fires — are raging in northern and western Colorado, after the week brought hot and dry conditions to the state.The biggest of the three, the Pine Gulch Fire, has engulfed more than 73,000 acres near the Grand Junction area of Colorado, making it the fourth largest wildfire in state history. It overtook the 2002 Mission Ridge Fire's 70,485 acres on Friday, according to the <a href="https://twitter.com/RMACCinfo/status/1293942476131033088">Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center.</a> The Pine Gulch Fire was just 7% contained as of Friday morning. That blaze ignited after a lightning strike on July 31, then grew this week as a result of hot and dry conditions across Colorado. <div type="image" title="pine gulch firefighters_pine gulch fire information team" height="1512" width="2016" msid="77555831" hostid="261"></div>The Grizzly Creek Fire, meanwhile, began Monday near Glenwood Springs and had growing to more than 13,400 acres by Friday. Residents of at least 35 homes have been evacuated so far due to that blaze, but no new evacuations have been ordered during the last several days, according to a hotline organized by a coalition including the Garfield County Health Department.Smoke from the Pine Gulch and Grizzly Peak Fires has spread into Colorado's Front Range, a corridor of mountainous terrain that includes Denver and Boulder. <div type="image" title="grizzly creek inciweb" height="465" width="620" msid="77555832" hostid="261"></div>Meanwhile, in a remote area of Larimer County, the Cameron Peak fire began Thursday afternoon and has grown to over 2,000 acres. It was 1% contained as of Friday morning, with 352 personnel working on the ground, including firefighters and members of the incident management team. A small number of residents and campers are <a href="https://member.everbridge.net/892807736722338/notif/PzzzzL5X8">under evacuation orders</a> in the area, according to the County Sheriff's office. All three fires are expected to grow into the weekend if conditions remain hot and dry. Friday offered a bit of a respite from a windier, drier Thursday, however. "We do not have a red-flag warning today, and are looking at much calmer winds and potential for a little bit of precipitation," Tracy LeClair, spokesperson for the Pine Gulch Fire Information Team, told Insider.<h2>Climate change is making Colorado's fire season more severe</h2>Climate change has contributed to the increase in fire severity in Colorado: <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/at-68-000-acres-and-growing-the-pine-gulch-fire-is-one-of-colorados-largest-wildfires-ever">All 10 of the state's</a> largest recorded fires have occurred since 2000, <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/at-68-000-acres-and-growing-the-pine-gulch-fire-is-one-of-colorados-largest-wildfires-ever">according to Denver7 News</a>.Rising temperatures and droughts have dried out soil in the state, killing many trees and creating natural kindling for wildfires, according to the EPA. Additionally, rising temperatures have decreased snowpack in the Front Range and other mountainous regions, reducing water flow in the Colorado river and further drying out land. "In the coming decades, the changing climate is likely to decrease water availability and agricultural yields in Colorado, and further increase the risk of wildfires," a <a href="https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/climate-change-co.pdf">2016 EPA report warned</a>.But the trend isn't limited to Colorado, of course. Large wildfires in the US overall now burn more than twice the area they did in 1970. In the western part of the country, the average wildfire season is <a href="https://www.c2es.org/content/wildfires-and-climate-change/">78 days longer</a> than it was 50 years ago.

3 major wildfires are burning in Colorado, one of which is the 4th largest in state history

Massive plumes of smoke from the historic wildfires currently raging along the US West Coast were being seen thousands of kilometres away in Europe, as far away as the <keyword id="44173" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Netherlands">Netherlands</keyword> and Germany, according to scientists. "The fact that these fires are emitting so much pollution into the atmosphere that we can still see thick smoke over 8,000 km away reflects just how devastating they have been in their magnitude and duration," Xinhua news agency reported on Friday citing scientist Mark Parrington as saying in a statement. Parrington, a senior scientist at the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), was tracking atmospheric currents and getting the tailwind of smoky skies generated by the devastating wildfires. Moreover, according to CAMS' forecasts, smoke from the fires scorching California and <keyword id="9656605" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-pacific-northwest">the Pacific Northwest</keyword> "is starting to cross the Atlantic again and will reach northern Europe later this week, as it did at the end of last week". "From north to south, America's West Coast is on fire. The present fires all over the west are the worst with highest temperatures and the worst air quality in history," Californian businessman from the environment industry Glenn Nemhauser told Xinhua on Thursday, referring to America's almost 3,000-km-long Pacific coast. "This is clearly global climate change caused by man-made air pollution from coal and oil combustion," he added. In the last one month, the wildfires, further fuelled by drought and high temperature conditions, have scorched some 3 million acres in California and another 1.6 million acres in Oregon and Washington states, leveling several small towns, destroying thousands of homes, and claiming at least 34 lives, according to media reports. On Wednesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown made a federal disaster declaration, allowing $1.2 billion of relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Oregon has seen a million acres of land burnt since the beginning of this year, "nearly double the 10-year average of approximately 557,811 acres", the state's Department of Forestry said on Thursday, noting that some 6,500 firefighters were battling the blazes. In the worst-hit state of California, authorities said 17,000 firefighters were battling 25 major fires, with 25 killed, while hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated, and almost 8,000 homes and structures incinerated. Nearly 4,000 evacuees remained displaced, according to the <keyword id="105724" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="American-Red-Cross">American Red Cross</keyword>. California also recorded the hottest August in the state's history, according to the National Weather Service. Former Governor Jerry Brown and incumbent Gavin Newsom "have stated these fires are proof of global warming, and that this is now the new normal". In <keyword id="6359726" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="colorado">Colorado</keyword>, Pine Gulch Fire, the biggest <keyword id="41285" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Wildfire">wildfire</keyword> in the state's history, was 95 per cent contained Thursday with 139,007 acres burned. Last week's rain in the Rocky Mountains states gave firefighters a breather, but the downpour did little to slow Cameron Peak Fire, which was only 8 per cent contained on Thursday with 102,596 acres scorched another possible record-breaking blaze. Just 10 days ago, another big blaze, Middle Fork Fire, erupted in western Colorado near ski resorts at Steamboat Springs, which was at 5,445 acres with zero containment, according to the InciWeb, a national incident information system run by the government. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/banks/news/us-based-law-firm-files-class-action-suit-against-hdfc-bank/articleshow/78179661.cms">US-based law firm files class action suit against HDFC Bank</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/president-kovind-accepts-harsimrat-kaur-badals-resignation/articleshow/78179496.cms">President Kovind accepts Harsimrat Kaur Badal's resignation</a>

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