Waldo Canyon Fire (was Pyramid Mountain Fire)

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Burning in the area of waldo canyon in El Paso county. Waldo canyon, cave of the winds, and cedar heights being evacuated.
 

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Courtesy of ScanElPaso County:

It's estimated at 50-100 acres now.

168.7250 Pike National Forest "Waldo Canyon IC"
163.7125 Logistics-National Common use
154.4300 Cascade Green Mountain Falls FPD
155.1000 Manitou Springs FD/Crystal Park FD

4940 El Paso County Blue Command - C2 (Pyramid IC)
4942 El Paso County Ruby Command - C4
4540 El Paso County DOT - Pikes Peak Highway Channel-1
4693 Colorado Springs Utilities - WRD
4536 Colorado Springs Parks & Recreation Channel-13

Not hearing anything yet on 464.2750 146.2 Security, KNCQ356 Cedar Hts Community Association, but they are evacuating. Eagle Lake may be evacuated soon.

US Forestry requested State Patrol close one lane of U.S. 24 westbound. Nothing mentioned for eastbound yet.

It's difficult to keep up with all the campgrounds and roads being evacuated and closed.
 

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Rampart Range road is closed at the Woodland Park access point and the Garden of the Gods access point. Fire has spotted below the canyon. Structure protection teams from CSFD headed to Cedar Heights.
 

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Not sure what's on the feed I'm listing too but discussing mandatory evacs for Cedar Heights.

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Waldo is 1/2 mile from structures in Williams.

Evac of Garden of the Gods now underway as well.

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By the looks of it, its growing rapidly. Took these right out my front door in the Briargate aera of colo spgs. The plume has almost doubled since.
Cascade, Chipita Park, and Green Mountain Falls are under voluntary evacuation.
 

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4940 El Paso County Blue Command - C2 (Pyramid IC)
Locked in on my right speaker of my feed if fellow feed providers want to concentrate on other channels.


(Using rubber ducky 800 antenna from Castle Rock, 5 bars' Signal!)

Waldo is 1/2 mile from structures in Williams.

Evac of Garden of the Gods now underway as well.

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Command Post moving to Rocky Top Christian Center in Green Mtn Falls.

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Air tankers are enroute, did not specify what type, cannot make drops till shooters at rampart range leave, sending a unit up there to handle it.
 

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Air tankers are enroute, did not specify what type, cannot make drops till shooters at rampart range leave, sending a unit up there to handle it.

Shooters have a broken down vehicle but there being removed by fire fighters now,

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voluntary evacuations for everyone west of 30th St from Gateway north to Chuckwagon.

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New mandatory evacs North of Hwy-24 from Teller County line East to Waldo Canyon

This includes Cascade and Green Mtn Falls North of Hwy-24.

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