# @denverpost on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-06-29T01:49:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Denver Post (@denverpost) — https://gondola.cc/denverpost

## Caption

Three firefighters died and two were injured after being overtaken by flames while battling a wildfire in western Colorado, one of several that have together consumed tens of thousands of acres, federal officials reported Sunday.

The fatal blaze started as two small fires sparked by lightning in eastern Utah: the Snyder Mesa and Jones fires, according to the Moab Valley Fire Department. Winds pushed the flames east into western Colorado’s Mesa County, where the two fires converged and overtook the already-burning Knowles and Gore fires.

Together, the four fires formed the 28,264-acre Snyder Mesa fire, according to Utah’s wildfire dashboard.

📝: Lauren Penington, The Denver Post
📷: William Woody, Special to The Denver Post

#wildfires #Coloradowildfires #disaster #naturaldisaster #Colorado #Utah

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naturaldisaster, utah, disaster, wildfires, colorado, coloradowildfires

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