Turner Gulch ballooned to nearly 14k acres overnight Tuesday, South Rim remains around 4k.
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Michaela Smiley and her husband had been nervously watching the Turner Gulch Fire grow for days when they finally got a knock on the door at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities were going house to house in a remote section of far western Colorado, along Highway 141, with the same message: It was time to go.
Smiley buckled her 2-year-old daughter and 5-week-old son into their car seats and drove north to safety, while her husband stayed behind to try to prevent fire on their property, located across the canyon from the fire.
