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Jolley Ranch Fire: The evening started out by driving to Grand Junction to drop off our Baldwin Park closing packet at FedEx, eating dinner, and sharing a turtle sundae at Coldstone, then we made our way back home - no biggie. Just as the Rifle Airport mesa came into view, I noticed what looked like a huge dust devil on the (Brett) Jolley mesa, east of the Airport. As we got closer we saw that it was a fire and it was getting big, and growing quickly. This was around 7:30p. At 10:30 I saw the glow of the fire over the Hogback and drove west with gema on 6&24 to get a better view and snapped this shot. The picture doesn't do the event justice.