After two days of battling grass fires, Cheyenne County Emergency Management says crews have contained or controlled all the fires in the area.
The flames sparked along U.S. 36 near the City of St. Francis Saturday leading to some voluntary evacuations. Sunday the governor issued a verbal disaster declaration for what they're calling the Cherry Creek Fire.
The Kansas National Guard sent in two Black Hawk helicopters and the Kansas Forest Service sent in an air tanker plane to help fight the flames from the air.
KAKE News Investigates first told you last September how The National Guard is employing new fire fighting techniques and equipment it spent the last two years developing and this summer perfecting to better help in situations like these.
"Each year we get a little bit better with it," Gen. Lee Tafanelli, Adjutant General with the Kansas National Guard, said then.