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Most Colorado counties keep fire bans

12:50 AM, Jul 10, 2012   |    comments
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Counties including Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Arapahoe and Adams have stage two burn bans in place. Stage two means open fires, including charcoal grilling, are banned.

Larimer County is also under a stage two burn ban, but the city of Fort Collins lifted it's ban Monday morning.

There are a handful of counties without burn bans, including Broomfield, Weld and Cheyenne counties.

The state fire ban that Hickenlooper imposed on June 14 applied to open burning, including campfires, warming fires, charcoal grill fires, fused explosives and private fireworks.

The following is a list of counties with a ban in place:

Adams
Alamosa
Arapahoe
Archuleta
Bent
Boulder
Chaffee
Clear Creek
Delta
Dolores
Douglas
Eagle
Elbert
El Paso
Fremont
Garfield
Gilpin
Grand
Huerfano
Jackson
Jefferson
Kit Carson
La Plata
Lake
Larimer
Las Animas
Lincoln
Moffat
Montezuma
Montrose
Otero
Park
Pueblo
Rio Blanco
San Juan
San Miguel
Sedgewick
Summit
Teller

The following counties have no ban in place: 

Broomfield
Cheyenne
Crowley
Custer
Logan
Phillips
Prowers
Washington
Weld

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