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Snow blanketed the foothills and grasslands on a southern Colorado Army post Thursday where a fast-moving wildfire claimed the life of a firefighting pilot earlier in the week.
The blaze, which burned across 15 square miles of Fort Carson, was 20 percent contained. Two other fires in the state this week were 100 percent contained Wednesday, including one that killed two firefighters.
The National Weather Service could not say how much snow fell on the Fort Carson fire, but 2 inches had fallen in nearby Colorado Springs, about 60 miles south of Denver. 
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