UPDATE! Fort Collins, Colorado: Flooding in northern Colorado claimed the life of at least one person and left two others missing Tuesday night, authorities said, prompting mandatory evacuations of residents, businesses and campgrounds from Rustic to Ted's Place. Emergency crews were tracking a debris flow on the Poudre River, according to emergency radio channels, along with reports of destroyed structures and potential fatalities. They were using drones for search and rescue operations. Mudslides knocked down miles of power lines, according to Poudre Valley REA, which provides power to the area, and more than 100 customers in the upper Poudre Canyon were without power, according to the map of outages. (Read more.)

⚠️ HIGHWAY CLOSURE! Highway 14 is currently closed through Poudre Canyon (northwest of Fort Collins) because of flash flooding. CDOT says Highway 14 will be closed all day. There is a 38 mile detour around the closure.

Yakutia, Russia: The Russian military has used its heavy-lift transport planes to help douse wildfires in Siberia, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. It said that the crew of Il-76 military transport planes dropped 370 tons of water on blazes in Yakutia in northeastern Siberia over the last 24 hours. The regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s in Yakutia said more than 2,000 of its personnel were battling the wildfires. The Russian state agency responsible for fighting forest fires, Avialesookhrana, said that more than 300 fires had engulfed about 2.1 million acres. It noted that Sakha-Yakutia was the worst affected, with 123 fires covering more than around 1.8 million acres. Russia has been plagued by widespread forest fires, blamed on unusually high temperatures and the neglect of fire safety rules.