Ram Lane Fire 100 percent contained
SILT – The Ram Lane Fire, located about two miles north of Silt, was listed at 100 percent contained Sunday night, said David Boyd, Bureau of Land Management spokesman.While there has been rain in the area, there was no rain on the fire, just a quick response and good work by the fire crews, said Susan Douglas of the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit.”It’s just the firefighters were on the ball last night and got the line dug,” she said.The fire started two miles north of Silt near the east end of Ram Lane (County Road 250), where it makes a 90-degree turn to the west. On Sunday ground crews totaling about 74 firefighters were working the blaze. The fire was listed at 45 acres by Sunday afternoon – about 75 percent of the land was Bureau of Land Management, with the other 25 percent on private land. A number of homes were at risk on Saturday, with the fire getting as close as 10 yards to one home, according to Boyd, but no structures have been lost in the fire. Douglas gives some of that credit to the Firewise program, which encourages landowners to incorporate defensible space around their structures.”The only damage was to the barbed-wire fencing,” she said. “The homeowners are doing the defensible space and following the Firewise program by keeping the fuels away from their homes.”
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