Cowboy State Daily Snow is finally falling on a pair of huge Wyoming wildfires. It’s literally the answer to the prayers of firefighters and locals living under the threat of the Elk and Pack Trail fires.
By Renée Jean
On his way to work Thursday, Ranchester’s fire chief Jeff Barron couldn’t help but smile when he saw big, fat raindrops landing on his windshield.
It was just a few, but behind those raindrops he could also see the entire face of the charred Bighorn Mountains, on fire now for three weeks.
The first thing Barron remembers doing was just breathing a big old sigh of relief.
The Elk Fire has consumed 96,000-plus acres of forest land to date and threatened all the small communities that lie at its feet, and it’s been keeping Barron and many other firefighters awake at night
A chilly and wet weather pattern couldn’t have come soon enough for them. And as of noon Thursday, snow had started falling across northern Wyoming, including on the Elk Fire and the Pack Trail Fire, which have burned 96,000 acres in the Bighorns west of Sheridan and nearly 90,000 acres in the Bridger-Teton National Forest west of Dubois.
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