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21-acre fire outside Colorado Springs forces evacuations

The Birdseye Fire started in a structure and moved into wildland

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Residents northeast of Colorado Springs are under evacuation orders due to a 21-acre fire, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Friday afternoon on .

There’s a mandatory evacuation order for residents in a two-mile radius of the 19000 block of Birdseye View in Peyton, Michael Smaldino, a Colorado Springs Fire Department spokesman, said in a video briefing. An additional one-mile radius is under pre-evacuation orders.

The Birdseye Fire, as authorities are calling it, started in a structure and moved from there into wildland, Smaldino said.

 

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