Containment of Cameron Peak Fire is now up to 97 percent, but a ground fire continues to smolder near the CSU Mountain Campus in the Pingree Park area.
Jason Phillips arrived in Colorado on August 10 and spent two weeks fighting the Cameron Peak fire before coming down with COVID-like symptoms at the end of his shift on August 25.
It was started on the afternoon of Aug. 13 — the cause is under investigation but it is believed that it was human-caused because of a lack of lightning activity in the area.