Wildfire Update: Security firefighters return from Pine Gulch mission

SECURITY, Colo. (KRDO) - One crew from the Security Fire Department is back home safe after spending two weeks fighting the Pine Gulch Fire near Grand Junction.

"Heavy smoke, a lot of flames, the temperatures are brutal" -- is how Security firefighter Charles James described the 14 days.

"The fire was acting like I've never seen it act before." firefighter Shawn Huff added in an interview with KRDO Tuesday afternoon. "I've personally never seen fire move downhill that fast in my life. We'd sit there and look and there'd be no fire, and it'd come over the peak and just come running down, and you'd just watch it come to you."

The Pine Gulch Fire is 47% contained as of Tuesday afternoon, according to officials on Facebook. It's currently the second-largest wildfire in state history, at approximately 134,999 acres or 211 square miles.

The Pine Gulch Fire was sparked on July 31 by lightning.

As of Tuesday, there are at least six major wildfires in Colorado, each of them burning more than 10,000 acres.