Lightning sparks 20 fires across region

RANGELY I It was a perfect storm for wildfires.
“Our lightning map showed over 5,000 lightning strikes last Thursday between Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and eastern Utah, so we got all that lightning. Then Friday with the high winds and dry conditions, we broke about 20 fires,” said Lynn Barclay, fire mitigation/education specialist for the Bureau of Land Management office in Craig and public information officer for the interagency group Northwest Colorado Fire Management…