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Voluntary evacuations for people and cattle began Friday afternoon after a small wildfire cropped up in northwest Colorado.
The blaze, dubbed the Morgan Creek fire, was burning an area estimated at around 75-100 acres near the Hinman Park Campground.
The fire, according to Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests staff, was traveling south-southeast by wind into the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness. Spokesman Jeff Arndt said that a “lot of resources” were helping fight the fire, but didn’t have an estimate on the firefighters or equipment on scene as of around 4 p.m.
The fire ignited while the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests were under Stage I fire restrictions, which began on June 16.