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Authorities said this week that a fast-moving fire in northern Colorado killed a pilot fighting the fire and started a wave of evacuations, highlighting research showing wildfires grew more intensely and occurred year-round.

Late Wednesday, about 40 miles northwest of Boulder, near the southeast end of Estes Park, the Kruger Rock fire burned 145 acres and 40 percent was contained, Larimer County officials said. Said in a post on Facebook.

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said the fire was first reported in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and crews found that flames were burning across the steep terrain. said in a newsletter. High winds and low humidity, conditions ripe for wildfires, caused the fire to spread rapidly and threaten structures in the area.

a few laps evacuation ordersIt was given both mandatory and voluntary to residents and businesses throughout the day on Tuesday. afternoon fire 75 acres burned and caused some Highway 36, a major east-west route, will be closed.

Efforts to control the fire after a plane carrying fire extinguishers departed towards evening crashed, pilot died. There was no one else on board. Officials said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the crash.

Some evacuation orders removed on WednesdayThere were alarming signs that the fire could spread.

National Weather Service in Boulder set red flag alert South Park and Palmer Divide until Thursday night for wildfires on the outskirts. “It will be a very dry air mass and the relative humidity will drop to as low as 6 percent,” the Weather Service said, adding that wind gusts could reach 40 miles per hour.

Colorado has seen a handful of wildfires this year. Oil Resources fireburned nearly 13,000 acres and Morgan Creek fireburned about 8,000 acres. Lightning started both. Last year, Cameron Peak fire It burned more than 200,000 acres in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in Larimer and Jackson Counties and Rocky Mountain National Park.

“One of the things that changed the paradigm was that Colorado was talking about a season of fires,” said Colorado Governor Jared Polis. said this springHe added that the phenomenon is now year-round.

Severe drought conditions worsened by climate change, Continuing to affect much of the western United States and even the Northern Plains is causing headaches for farmers and ranchers and is making the way for massive wildfires to spread easily.

forest fire experts see the signature of climate change in drought, the higher temperature and longer fire season making these fires more extreme. “Without climate change, we wouldn’t have seen this huge increase in fire activity so quickly,” said Park Williams, a climate scientist at UCLA. “There is no way.”