(CBS News) CONIFER, Colo. – An erratic wildfire suspected of causing at least two deaths outside Denver was still totally out of control Wednesday. The blaze is one of several in Colorado fueled by unusually dry and warm weather. As Lane Lyon, of CBS Denver station KCNC reports, hundreds of firefighters were entering a third day of battling wildfires across the state. More than 37 square miles had been scorched by the unpredictable infernos. In Jefferson County, the fires’ devastation was deadly.
The largest of about a dozen wildfires continued to incinerate a seven-and-a-half square mile range of the county, which is just 25 miles southwest of Denver. Rescue workers discovered the bodies of an elderly couple at the site of their burned home, while the search continued for another, unidentified woman. If confirmed as fire-related, the deaths would be the first reported victims of wildfires in Colorado in 30 years.
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