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By
Tom Goodenough

PUBLISHED:

06:25 EST, 17 June 2012

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UPDATED:

15:17 EST, 17 June 2012

Crews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. Meanwhile, local authorities are focusing on another concern – looting.

The destructiveness of the High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins surpassed the Fourmile Canyon wildfire, which destroyed 169 homes west of Boulder in September 2010.

More than 1,630 personnel are working on the Fort Collins-area fire, which was sparked by lightning and is 45 per cent contained. 

Trees are shown engulfed in flames in Colorado’s High Park fire that has already devastated a huge area of forest

Julie Berney with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said firefighters can expect winds of 30 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph in the Poudre Canyon area on Sunday. Some rain moved through on Saturday evening, but it was not enough to quell the fire.

‘The problem is that when you have a fire like this, even if it rains it evaporates before it hits the ground,’ Berney said.

A red flag warning has been issued for the area until 8 p.m. on Sunday, and temperatures could reach 90 degrees, the hottest day since the fire was reported on June 9.

But incident commander Bill Hahnenberg said today he was pleased with the firefighters’ progress, while also acknowledging that high winds could be a test.

The fire was estimated to have affected an area of more than 14,000 acres on Sunday morning

Dangerous: Smoke from the High Park Fire rises from the hillside looking west along Colorado State Highway 14 on June 11, 2012 in Fort Collins, left, and Michelle Mellenthin rests her head on Chris Huizenga’s shoulder as the two watch firefighting efforts from a Jeep on 11, 2012 near Laporte, Colorado, right

Firefighters have resorted to using helicopters to attempt to put out the blaze

‘A scenario could be we’ll lose some
line, and then we just go after it the next day and the next day,’ he
said. ‘We’re going to do everything we can to protect facilities, and
we’re prepared to do that.’

As
firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze, which has burned
large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land, local authorities
have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.

Deputies arrested 30-year-old Michael Stillman Maher of Denver on Sunday on charges including theft and impersonating a firefighter. The sheriff’s department said Maher was driving through the fire zone with phony firefighter credentials and a stolen government license plate.

His truck was later spotted near a bar in Laporte, and investigators say they found a firearm and stolen property in the vehicle.

‘There’s a handful out there that are taking advantage of others,’ said Sheriff Justin Smith, adding that ‘if somebody’s sneaking around back there, we’re going to find them.’

Also in Colorado, a fire near Pagosa Springs in the southwestern part of the state has grown to 11,617 acres and is 30 percent contained. Hot, dry conditions on Sunday are expected to fuel the fire, which was sparked by lightning May 13.

A huge smoke plume rises from the High Park fire which emergency workers say could take weeks to contain

The wind-driven wildfire has already forced hundreds of people to flee for their lives

A plume of smoke from the massive blaze is pictured rising in this satellite image

Meanwhile, firefighters battling the blaze say it could take a month to get under control as full containment looks a long way off.

And with the hot and dry conditions set to continue fire chiefs fear the destruction could get much worse.

The fire is believed to have already claimed its first casualty. The body of a 62-year-old woman who was unable to escape in time was found in her cabin.

Brett Haberstick, who is working on the attempts to tackle the blaze, told Fox news that the efforts to put out the fire remained dependent on the weather conditions:

‘We’re hopeful that we will be able to contain it today, but that will be determined by Mother Nature.’

As well as the destruction caused to
more than 10 structures, many more dwellings have been threatened and
remain under evacuation orders.

Devastating: Kevin Gates (L), of Loveland, Co. and Keegan Steele of Fort Collins, Co. watch firefighting efforts as they sit on a rock in Horsetooth Reservoir on Monday June 11, 2012 near Laporte, Colorado

Struggle: A Sikorsky S-64 Aircrane firefighting helicopter circles as it prepares to drop water on a hotspot near Horsetooth Reservoir on Monday June 11, 2012 near Laporte, Colorado

Colorado residents watch helplessly as smoke and flames encroach upon their homes

The
fire was first reported on June 9 but rescuers have warned it could be
at least two weeks before the blaze is fully dealt with.

The Colorado fire is not the only one to have affected the United States in recent weeks.

In New Mexico, in a blaze also caused by a lightning strike, 242 homes have been destroyed and 59 square miles of forest burned.

The 59-square-mile Little Bear Fire in Ruidoso is 60 per cent contained. Dan Bastion, a spokesman for crews fighting the fire, says most of the fire is in the mop-up stage, but crews need to build more containment on the fire’s active west side to deprive it of fuel.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack planned to travel to Albuquerque on Sunday to meet with officials leading the response to wildfires in the state.

The fire broke out on June 4th but
was made far worse several days later when high winds carried embers
across the forest causing it to spread even further.

Colorado is not the only area of the Unites States to be affected, as a fire also continues to rage in New Mexico

Emergency workers tackling the blaze say it could be weeks before it is fully put out

The sky turns a brilliant orange as smoke from the High Park fire in Colorado rises

The
emergency response to the fire was criticised, however, as transcripts
detailing the firefighters’ tackling of the blaze were released.

Congressman Steve Pearce said that he felt more could have been done to deal with the New Mexico fire.

Meanwhile, in Arizona, firefighters are focusing on protecting electrical transmission lines near a 3,100-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest in the northern part of the state.

Officials say hot weather and steep slopes remain a concern, and firefighters are on the alert for thunderstorms and possible lightning strikes. The fire is 15 percent contained.

A helicopter tanker passes a huge plume of smoke from the towering inferno

A horse grazes idly by as the monster blaze rages in the background

A firefighter’s boot sits on a table for donations to the Red Cross outside a Colorado bar

2,500 people have been forced to evacuate their homes to escape from the monster blaze in New Mexico

A fire crew watches as the Little Bear fire burns in the Lincoln National Forest near Ruidoso, New Mexico

A home is seen surrounded by burned forest in the aftermath of Colorado’s High Park Fire

The fire has devastated a huge area of both national and private forest, and is believed to have claimed its first victim – a 62-year-old woman

Rescuers fear that the fire could blaze for up to a month before it is brought under control

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