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The Aspen Acres fire made an 8-mile run overnight and has grown to more than 66,000 acres as more than 350 firefighters are working the wildfire southwest of Pueblo, officials said Friday morning in an update.
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“The fire exhibited extreme fire behavior overnight Thursday and into Friday morning, growing over 11,000 acres. Pushed by strong overnight winds, the fire made an eight-mile run to the south, a four-to-five-mile run to the north and grew one mile to the west,” officials said in a Friday morning report.
The fire has burned 66,896 acres, up from the 50,187 acres reported Thursday afternoon, and is approximately 20 miles from Pueblo. “There is no threat to Pueblo at this time,” the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office said early Friday morning.
Mandatory evacuations remained in effect for communities near the Pueblo-Custer county border, including Beulah, Colorado City and Wetmore.
A section of Pueblo Reservoir is closed to boating so aircraft fighting the fire can pull water from the lake.
The forecast for Friday continues to be dry and hot with wind gusts near 35 mph, officials said. “Extreme fire is expected again on Friday with possible crown runs and group tree torching. Live trees, brush and shrubs are drought stressed and very dry,” according to the incident management team leading the fire response.
At least 180 structures had been destroyed as of Wednesday night. Officials believe that number will rise as the fire grows and teams can safely enter neighborhoods to conduct assessments.
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Here is a roundup of the other major fires burning in Colorado:
Snyder fire
Fire crews are making progress on containing the fire burning west of Grand Junction, and the Snyder fire is now 65% contained, officials said Friday morning. It has burned 30,194 acres since starting Saturday in Utah then pushing east into Colorado.
Gold Mountain fire
Burning 2 miles northeast of Ouray, the fire has grown to 21,788 acres and there are 539 people working to contain it, officials said Friday morning.
There are more national forest closures, including southeast of Ridgway, east of U.S. 550 and the town of Ouray, south o fU.S. 50, and west of Lake City. The area extends across the Uncompahgre Wilderness toward the Little Cimarron drainage and Uncompahgre Peak, reaching north to the Big Blue Creek ridgeline before returning west along the Forest boundary toward Dexter Creek Road.
Ferris fire
Officials reported initial containment on the fire Thursday night at 10%. The fire, located in southwestern Colorado about 20 miles northwest of Dolores, has burned 27,382 acres and there are 365 people on the scene.
Willow fire
As of Thursday evening, the fire about 6 miles west of Leadville has burned 2,355 acres since starting Sunday afternoon.
The Forest Service on Friday morning expanded its closure area and it now includes a larger portion of the Leadville Ranger District.
This is a developing story that will be updated.