A pedestrian was killed early Friday following a crash on Interstate 70 near Interstate 225, Denver police said on X.

The Lee fire continued to grow overnight, now charring 58,714 acres outside Meeker. It is still 0% contained.

A retired Aurora police detective who spent 41 years on the job kept 30 boxes of investigative material under his floorboards, Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a news conference Thursday.

Two uncontained wildfires have charred thousands of acres and reached within a mile of the Western Slope town of Meeker, forcing evacuations as the flames jump highways and the threaten to cross the White River.

At least one person died Saturday night in a crash at the intersection of Parker Road and Havana Street, on the edge of Denver’s Hampden neighborhood, police said.

One person was found dead inside a home destroyed by fire in the Poudre Canyon early Tuesday morning.

Sgt. Glenn Eric Thomas was suspected of victim intimidation, victim tampering and violating a protection order. The charges were dropped on July 28 and the case was sealed.