Cloud cover and humidity helped firefighters slow the growth of four major wildfires, officials said, but thousands of Coloradans remained under mandatory evacuation orders and nearly 300 homes were destroyed by the Aspen Acres fire.

Metro Denver search and rescue crews saved an 18-year-old woman who was trapped in an abandoned missile silo for about 4 hours early Wednesday morning, Colorado law enforcement officials said.

Michael Burch, 69, died inside the Huerfano County Detention Center on April 4, 2023, from complications of blunt force trauma to his chest, the coroner found.

A fatal motorcycle crash shut down northbound South Santa Fe Drive in Sheridan on Wednesday morning, according to the police department.

Together, four active wildfires in Colorado have consumed nearly 190,000 acres, or 296 square miles. That’s nearly twice the size of the city of Denver.

A Jefferson County District Court judge on Tuesday sentenced former Mountain View town councilman Brent Metz to work release and probation for shooting a 17-year-old boy in the face in 2024.

The Aspen Acres fire has burned more than 93,000 acres in Pueblo and Custer counties, and now ranks as the seventh-largest wildfire in Colorado’s recorded history.