DELTA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) - Delta County Sheriff Mark Taylor implemented stage 2 fire restrictions beginning at 12:01 a.m., Friday.

The restrictions will apply to state parks, all unincorporated lands within Delta County, wildlife areas, and within the town limits of any municipality within Delta County which elects by appropriate ordinance or resolution to have the provisions of stage 2 fire restrictions apply within their jurisdiction.

These restrictions come with the many wildfires across Western Colorado like the Leroux Fire in Delta County. The forecast also shows low humidity, low fuel moisture levels, and hot, dry and windy conditions.

"Delta County has not received the monsoon moisture patterns we normally see which bring relief to Delta County during the late summer months, in

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