Record heat hampers efforts to fight wildfires

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | 4:01 p.m. CDT; updated 6:33 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 2, 2012

WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — Searing, record-setting heat in the interior West kept its grip on firefighters struggling to contain blazes in Colorado, Utah and other Rocky Mountain states Tuesday.

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