Colorado wildfire | Pearl Fire latest, updates, evacuations [Video]

Mandatory and voluntarily evacuations are in place for the Pearl Fire burning in northern Colorado.

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office issued mandatory evacuations for a new wildfire, called the Pearl Fire, that sparked Monday morning near Crystal Lakes.

The sheriff’s office said the fire has burned an estimated 78 acres as of 2:30 p.m., with no containment.

Mandatory evacuations:

Crystal Lakes, south of Black Mountain and north of Lake Erie.
Nearly to Highway 14 (Poudre Canyon Road) on the south side of Black Mountain, and west toward County Road 103.
North of Black Mountain to the Wyoming state line.

Residents are being told to evacuate immediately.

Voluntary evacuations:

The area of Lake Erie and Mitchell Ditch.

An area of Wyoming directly across the state line is also under voluntary evacuation status: from the state line to Sportsman Lake Road on the north, Ashby Loop on the west and Highway 287 on the east.

Residents in voluntary evacuation zones are …

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