A wind-driven wildfire prompted authorities to evacuate all 1,100 residents from the southeastern Colorado town of Ordway on Tuesday, while a second fire in the western Colorado mountains ...
A third wildfire had burned more than 1,000 acres on Fort Carson and a forced a lockdown of the gates to the Army post near Colorado Springs.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/15/residents-flee-wildfires/
Thanks for the update! I know some folks in the Rocky Ford-La Junta area and I’ve been to Ordway several times. My prayers are with the locals.