Editor's note: This story originally published August 14, 1994 No one thing led to the July 6 deaths on Storm King Mountain. It took a combination of tragic miscues. SEVERE FUEL, WIND: The creeping ...

Editor’s note: This is running 31 years and three days after 14 firefighters gave their lives in defense of our community. We apologize for not recognizing their sacrifice on the anniversary itself.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -Sunday marked the anniversary of the tragic Storm King Mountain Fire near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. On July 2, 1994, a lightning strike ignited the Storm King Fire, ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS ” On a warm and dry Friday morning, the wind is blowing at the head of the Storm King Memorial Trail. Sandy Dunbar knows it’s nothing like the conditions on July 6, 1994. That’s the ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - By the time Eric Hipke and the other firefighters turned to run, the fire on Storm King Mountain had swept below them and was roaring through shrubs as if they had been ...