Evacuations are in place as firefighters throughout southern Colorado battle multiple fires.
In southern El Paso County, officials say 10 structures have been lost in a fire near mile marker 117. It's unknown how many of those structures are homes. There's a mandatory evacuation between S. Peyton Highway to the west and Boone Road on the east, with the northern boundary set at Squirrel Creek Rd. and the southern boundary at Myers Road, with additional evacuation areas as indicated by the shaded areas in the map below.
An evacuation shelter is open at the Fountain Valley Baptist Church, 500 Alabama Ave., in Fountain. Small animals can be taken to the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region in Colorado Springs; the Norris-Penrose Event Center is open for large animals.
In Pueblo County, this same fire is prompting a pre-evacuation notice for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant and from the El Paso Couny Line to the 6000 block of Overton Road. An earlier fire in Pueblo County in the vicinty of Baxter Road is now 100% contained.