Rain cools Colorado fires; other wildfires growing

Thursday, July 5, 2012

DENVER -- Rains cooled Colorado's wildfires Wednesday, but more than a dozen wildfires elsewhere in the West continued chewing through bone-dry pine and brush as firefighters working through the holiday kept a nervous eye for fireworks and other hazards.

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