Rocky Mountain snow snuffs out fire season

摘要

Snowfall in the Rocky Mountains is aiding the demise of this year's wildfire season, although some blazes continue in Colorado and Southern California. Jessica Gardetto, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho, said the western United States saw a below-average fire season, with around 7,500 square miles charred. Normally, wildfires burn closer to 10,000 square miles. "Just to compare, last year we burned over 10 million acres [15,625 square miles], and this year we didn't even reach 5 million [7,812 square miles] nationally," Gardetto said. "So we burned twice as many acres last year as we did this year."