Three firefighters die and two are injured while battling the Knowles and Gore fires on the Colorado‑Utah border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service reports.The Cottonwood Fire grows beyond 144 square miles, destroys parts of a ski resort and summer cabins, forces mass evacuations and prompts targeted power shutoffs by Rocky Mountain Power.Utah Governor
Spencer Cox declares an emergency and bans fireworks, Colorado deploys the
National Guard, and nearly 3M acres have burned across the western US this year as crews battle dozens of large blazes.