First responder
Photographer Mike Vanata happened across a small fire burning along Interstate 80 while driving to Laramie, and ended up being part of the effort to extinguish it.
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Where there’s smoke…
The lightning-sparked Britania Mountain fire took advantage of hot dry weather to burn within 6 miles of Wheatland. As of Thursday it was 33 percent contained.
Fire season
Wildfires across the West have filled Wyoming skies with smoky haze this week, but nothing yet on the order of 29 years ago, when Yellowstone National Park was ablaze.
Festive small evacuees
If these little evacuees regretted the Keystone Fire’s intrusion on their Fourth-of-July holiday, they did not show it in this photo.
How to deploy an emergency fire shelter
When options run out and flames close in, a thin tarp of high-tech fabric can be the barrier between life and death for wildland firefighters.
