Updated Wednesday, June 16, 8:46 a.m.: Officials are now estimating that the Deep Creek fire east of Townsend has burned more than 2,000 acres and evacuations have been ordered for ...

The Deep Creek fire was listed at 73 acres and 15% contained as of Friday afternoon. It was caused by lightning. There were 134 personnel, which included 4 helicopters, 4 engines, and 2 handcrews ...

The Deep Creek Canyon Fire burning near Townsend was 95% contained as of Wednesday night. The fire has burned more than 4,600 acres. Evacuation orders have been lifted, and fire crews are mopping ...

The Deep Creek Canyon fire between Townsend and White Sulphur Springs remained at 75% contained Tuesday night, with the land burned holding steady at 4,648 acres. ...

Marjorie Dunston returned to Spokane this week to claim the ashes of her four dead brothers and sisters after a house fire in Deep Creek took their lives on Aug. 14, 1951.

The Deep Creek Fire is the biggest fire Routt County has seen since 2002. That year, 41,900 acres burned in the Routt National Forest.

The Deep Creek Fire, last estimated at 50 acres, forced an evacuation of the Spring Creek neighborhood Wednesday night. “It’s been burning right on the edge of the forest,” Steve Lipsher, a ...