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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, July 24th. I'm Reece Cowan, filling in for Mac Watson

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Moments after lightning struck, Casper missionaries watched the Fish Creek Fire explode to life and rushed 20 teen campers to safety. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that residents stayed behind to look after neighbors and livestock. "As they were driving away, they said that they saw the mountain burning. The owner of Fish Creek Ranch nearby says"Ranchers, if you know them, won't leave until they have to leave. So while most people were evacuating, he decided to stay to make sure everyone was okay. Check on neighbors, check on people's livestock, and luckily, no injuries have been reported yet. As of Thursday afternoon, the Albany County Sheriff's Department said that the fire is now 50% contained. The area is still in a go evacuation mode, which means people need to be ready to leave at a moment's notice." As firefighters continue working to fully contain the Fish Creek Fire, officials are asking the public to avoid the area so emergency crews can safely continue their work.

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– Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday that he'll intervene in the Colorado River crisis — if he has to. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports Burgum tells Cowboy State Daily "We have one-fourth the water and four times the people."

"The the Colorado River crisis is just getting worse. It's been going on for decades with feuding between the seven states that share the water from the Colorado River, and they they've kind of come to a head headwaters, so to speak, especially this year when they've had a record warm winter, record low snowpack in the upper basin states like us here in Wyoming. It really is a complicated dilemma on how all these seven states can work it out because each state wants what they want, and the interesting thing here is, there's a deadline for these states to kind of come up with a solution on their own." Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said 'When the water was divided up in 1922, there were 16 million acre-feet of water available from the Colorado River. This year there's only 3.5 million available, which increases pressure from lower basin states for the upper basin — which includes Wyoming — to release more water. Read the full story