A nearly 3,000-acre wildfire burning near Parachute barely grew overnight Saturday as firefighters continued working to contain the blaze, fire officials reported Sunday.
Aside from the Spring Creek fire, a handful of smaller fires are burning across Colorado, including three fires in the southwest corner of the state.
The Chris Mountain fire west of Pagosa Springs had burned 431 acres, about .7 of a square mile, by Sunday. The nearby Coal Mine fire, burning to the south of Pagosa Springs, had burned 286 acres or about .4 of a square mile, and the even smaller Arkansas Loop fire south of Durango had burned 127 acres, or about .2 of a square mile on Sunday.
Closer to Denver, the Poverty fire had burned about 5 acres on Bureau of Land Management land in Fremont County northwest of Pueblo on Sunday. That small fire was discovered Saturday, according to fire reports. And to the south, the Titan fire had burned about 928 acres, or 1.5 square miles, on private land near Trinidad in Las Animas County.
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