The Idaho County Coroner identified the men killed as 35-year-old Ethan Powers of Timnath, 45-year-old Jeremy Coleman of Berthoud, and Coleman’s 26-year-old son-in-law, Nathan McCormick of Loveland, according to the and .

“Sgt. Jeremy Coleman and Deputy Ethan Powers were taken far too soon in a tragic off-duty motorcycle crash,” a CFOP .

The Idaho State Police preliminary investigation shows that a 2019 Ford F-150 was traveling westbound on U.S. 12 when the driver of the pickup attempted to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone, according to a .

The driver of the pickup truck crossed the double yellow center line and crashed into the three motorcycles that were traveling east, also according to the news release.

All three motorcyclists died on scene, the release stated.

The sheriff’s office both deputies incredible people who dedicated their lives to improving Larimer County. The organization described them as lovers of life, servants, and hard workers.

“As we walk the long, winding path of grief beside their families, our resolve is stronger than ever,” the . “For them, we’ll bring light to dark places. We’ll stand for good & fight against evil. We’ll live each day with gratitude & carry their legacy forward.”

The 60-year-old pickup driver is facing three counts of felony vehicular manslaughter in relation to the crash, according to the .

Coleman was a sergeant and Powers was a deputy with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, according to CFOP.

“The law enforcement profession is built on service, sacrifice, and commitment to others. Sgt. Coleman and Deputy Powers dedicated their lives to protecting their community, and their impact will continue to be felt by those who had the privilege of serving alongside them,” the stated. “To our brothers and sisters at Lodge 4 and the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, please know that the Colorado FOP stands with you. We share in your grief, and we remain ready to support you in any way we can.”

The Colorado Peace Officers Foundation has created a fundraiser for the families at .

A GoFundMe campaign also was created by Berthoud resident Abby Decker, who identified herself as a friend to McCormick’s wife, Zoe. She wrote that Zoe is facing unimaginable heartbreak dealing with the losses of her husband and father, all while trying to raise two young children, ages 2 and 4, according to the post. Decker said donations will go towards Zoe’s living expenses, childcare, and mortgage payments. The GoFundMe is available at .

“Where do you stand in regard to ICE?” the woman asked, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rutinel, who was pressing the flesh on a hot, sunny afternoon in Thornton’s Carpenter Park, was more than ready with an answer. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and crackdown on people living in the country illegally have provided reliable talking points for the 31-year-old state representative from Commerce City.

“They’re terrorizing Latino immigrants,” Rutinel, whose mother immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, told the couple. “It’s personal for me.”

Nearly 24 hours earlier and about seven miles away, Shannon Bird — the other Democrat running in the 8th Congressional District — was going door to door in the Sherrelwood neighborhood in Adams County. The former state representative carried a stack of campaign flyers emblazoned with the words: “Fight Trump. Stop ICE.”

Bird, 57, and Rutinel are facing off in the Democratic primary on June 30. They’re each hoping to go to battle this November with Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans to represent the 8th District, which largely covers suburbs and farm fields across parts of three counties north of Denver.

The race revolves around the familiar issues Democrats have been bringing up since Trump regained the White House last year: immigration, the cost of living and the environment. But Bird and Rutinel, separated in age by 26 years, say they bring their own skill sets and perspectives to a district that has landed in the national spotlight.

“This is where you find out where people are at — what they’re all about,” said Bird, as a campaign aide used a smartphone to shoot footage of her walking along Douglas Drive. “I know the community — I have an authentic connection to the people in this community. To win, people have to know you care about them.”

Several people who opened their doors on that hot Friday afternoon pledged their vote to Bird, including 80-year-old Patricia Hall, who has lived in her Albert Court house since 1972.

For Hall, it comes down to Bird’s longevity in the district — a quarter-century of volunteering for Adams 12 Five Star Schools and serving on the Westminster City Council and at the state Capitol for the better part of two terms.

Rutinel has lived in Commerce City for four years, though he spent several additional months in the city in 2020, according to his campaign. Bird has lived in Westminster for 25 years.

“She’s been out talking to the people,” said Hall, who worried about Colorado’s experience deficit in the nation’s capital should U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet be elected Colorado governor this fall. “We gotta get some of the experience back in Washington.”

While the candidates are putting their feet to the ground to talk to voters, the much bigger outreach effort is happening on television and online. Between fundraising by both campaigns and a gush of spending by outside groups, the 8th Congressional District primary has turned into an expensive affair.

Bird and Rutinel together have raised more than $5 million, and outside groups have reported independent spending totaling nearly $5.8 million in the primary.

“The 8th District is still the race to watch,” said Robert Preuhs, a political science professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

The district, Colorado’s newest, covers Denver’s northern suburbs and the agricultural land and oil fields stretching to Greeley. It could play a crucial role in determining control of a closely divided Congress in 2027, given its — a dynamic that has sent representatives from both major parties to Washington in less than four years.

Until recently, the Democratic primary was a three-person contest. But in late May, former Marine Evan Munsing called it quits. He did not immediately endorse anyone in the race.

With an animated — and often angry — Democratic voting base in this election cycle, Preuhs said such angst could play in favor of a relative newcomer to the district, like Rutinel, who has tried to push a more left-leaning message on the trail.

“Voters are really looking for something different,” the professor said. “They’re seeking that candidate that can push back on ICE. I think he has a natural tie and attraction to Latinos in the district.”

The Latino factor and big outside money

The 8th District is Colorado’s most heavily Latino, with , according to data from the 2021 Colorado redistricting effort. The Hispanic vote was thought to be a critical part of former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo’s victory in 2022 over state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, according to an exit poll conducted during the election.

In late April, the Latino Victory Project pledged a on behalf of Rutinel, who it said “will protect our communities from MAGA’s extremist policies,” referring to Trump’s coalition. The progressive advocacy group spends in support of Latino candidates.

Since then, the group — and its political action committee, the Latino Victory Fund — have ramped up their spending, reporting nearly $1.9 million in independent expenditures in support of Rutinel or opposing Bird, . Another Latino-supporting group, SOMOS PAC, has reported spending nearly $898,000 to help Rutinel.

Those amounts are part of nearly $4.1 million spent by outside groups on ads, mailers and other activities in support of Rutinel or opposing Bird as of Friday. That sum includes $949,000 spent by You Can Push Back, a super PAC that lauds Rutinel’s sponsorship of Colorado artificial intelligence regulations.

Less outside money — $1.7 million, according to FEC filings — has been spent to help Bird, either in support of her or opposing Rutinel. About $1.3 million of that has come from Women Vote, a super PAC associated with Emily’s List, which supports women running for office.

In direct contributions, Rutinel holds a distinct money advantage over Bird, having raised nearly twice as much as she has — Just over two weeks from the primary election, their ads — and those bought by outside groups — have become fixtures on metro Denver TV screens.

Yazmin Torres, who owns the Neveria La Unica food truck, says she connects with Rutinel, a fluent Spanish speaker raised by a single mother. The candidate paid her a visit at Thorntonfest last weekend and she thanked him for his work on a 2025 bill that .

As a single mom herself, Torres said she felt a kinship with Rutinel. She also wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. Rutinel earned his law degree from Yale University.

“My dream is to go to law school, so he’s an inspiration to do that,” she said. “It’s nice to have someone to represent us.”

But securing the Latino vote in the district is no guarantee of victory. In 2024, the showed a strong preference among Latino voters for Caraveo over Evans — by more than 20% — but Evans, who is also Latino, prevailed in that contest.

Bird, an attorney before getting into politics, has her own story of growing up with a single mother. She often recounts that her family stayed afloat by relying on tips from her grandmother’s casino dealer job in Reno, Nevada. Those are the kinds of economic struggles she hears from potential constituents while knocking on doors.

“The high cost of living — and now with the Iran war — the cost of gas,” Bird said. “And those energy costs spread throughout the economy.”

Her opponent’s decision to support a state budget this year that included cuts to Medicaid has become one of Bird’s campaign attack lines. At a late May candidate forum in Greeley, she told Rutinel and the audience that she would “absolutely not have voted to cut Medicaid.”

“He should have fought to use the rainy day fund to hold off the worst of these cuts,” Bird said in an interview with The Denver Post. “Both Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel believe that cutting Medicaid is a way to pass a budget.”

Rutinel dismisses Bird’s allegations, saying he tried to save Medicaid funds in the Colorado budget but was unable to marshal the support amongst his colleagues to do so.

“I did the work to bring amendments to dip into the reserves further,” he said.

Rutinel said he grew up on Medicaid, so he knows its importance firsthand.

“Saving Medicaid is personal for me,” he said.

In turn, Rutinel regularly critiques Bird’s vote against a 2025 bill in the state House that aimed to further curtail federal immigration authorities’ access to public spaces in Colorado, from government buildings to libraries to public schools. He said he is “severely disappointed that Shannon Bird was the only House Democrat to vote against it.”

“She’s trying to pull a fast one,” Rutinel told folks hiding from the sun at the covered Brighton Writers Group booth at Thorntonfest. “We need to be fighting for the people who are struggling.”

Voters in the 8th District, he said, may have wanted more oversight at the southern border than what former President Joe Biden provided, but they don’t want the chaotic — and sometimes violent — mass deportation agenda of this president.

“People tell me Donald Trump and Gabe Evans were going to go after the criminals — and they’re going after the grandmas,” he said. “People are telling me they feel lied to.”

Plenty of agreement

Bird calls Rutinel’s accusation on the ICE bill apocryphal. She said her “no” vote on Senate Bill 276 happened during a committee hearing on the bill, which she said needed improvement before going to a floor vote in the House.

Bird said she regrets being absent the day the bill came up for a floor vote in the House a few weeks later — a missed vote she blames on a family medical emergency.

“It was one of the few votes I missed, and I regret that,” Bird told The Post earlier this year.

Rutinel, she said, has been using that bill to mischaracterize her position on ICE and Trump’s immigration policy. She says she has the only , with requirements for body-worn cameras and officers who are better vetted and trained.

“I think Manny has a record he can’t defend,” she said.

Immigration will prove an important issue in the 8th Congressional District, said Preuhs, the political science professor. Though ICE’s footprint in Colorado has been lighter than in other American cities, the issue is never far from a district with so many Latinos.

“You have a Democratic voting constituency that is adamantly against Trump and they’re looking for a strong advocate for their position,” Preuhs said.

But if the forum in Greeley last month showed anything, it’s that the two Democrats running for the nomination agree on much — including opposition to a federal ban on hydraulic fracturing to extract oil, support for a ban on oil and gas leases on federal land, and support for a boost in the federal minimum wage.

In recent weeks, Rutinel has been on the defensive after  that he had reversed or softened past positions in support of a fracking ban, cancellation of student debt and a single-payer healthcare system. His campaign pushed back on some of the outlet’s characterizations.

The 8th Congressional District partially lies in Weld County, which is Colorado’s most prolific producer of oil and gas. Agriculture is also a big presence in the district, and both Bird and Rutinel have slammed Trump’s tariffs, many of which were overturned in February by the Supreme Court, as unfriendly to farmers.

“Congress needs to pass legislation to make it clear who has the power to tariff,” Bird told The Post.

Rutinel, who was an economist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before getting into politics, was equally tough on the body he is vying to join when it comes to preserving its power of the purse.

“If we had a willingness from Congress to pull back these corrupt and chaotic tariff policies, we could bring down prices,” he said. “It’s putting so many of the family farms and ranchers at risk.”

The sedan was traveling northbound on I-25 on May 30, southeast of Fort Collins, and then took an exit as deputies arrived. The car continued driving faster than 100 mph and cut its lights to avoid detection. Deputies then saw the sedan run a red light near Terry Lake and pulled it over. The driver and a passenger were both arrested.

Deputies discovered that the car had been “extensively modified with systems designed to evade law enforcement,” including radar detectors and jammers, a device used to cover the car’s license plate, and a “passenger binocular system for spotting cops.” Deputies also found amphetamines in the car.

The equipment, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said, are commonly used in “cannonball runs,” an underground contest in which participants race to see how quickly they can drive from one American coast to the other.

The sheriff’s office did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday afternoon.

Ivan Banuelos Gandara, 23, pleaded guilty to human trafficking and child sex exploitation in March, court records show. Prosecutors dismissed child prostitution, sex assault, enticement, internet luring and drug charges as part of the plea deal.

Police arrested Gandara in April 2024 after a 13-year-old girl reported he was forcing her to have sex in exchange for money, food and marijuana, the said in a news release.

Detectives also found another 13-year-old victim while

“The amount of bravery these victims showed in coming forward cannot be overstated,” District Attorney Gordon McLaughlin said in a statement.

McLaughlin also thanked the multi-disciplinary human trafficking team that helped with the case and supported the victims.

“Human trafficking cases are incredibly complex, and these partnerships enable us to ensure victims are heard and offenders held accountable,” he said.

Gandara’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.

Manny Rutinel, a state representative from Commerce City, deployed an attack line that he has been using for months on the campaign trail — that his opponent, former state Rep. Shannon Bird, voted against a 2025 bill that would have further curtailed immigration authorities’ access to government buildings, libraries and public schools in Colorado.

“I can’t tell you how much that hurt me and my family,” said the 31-year-old Rutinel, whose mother immigrated to the United States. “We need leaders who will stand up to Donald Trump.”

Bird, 57, said her opponent repeatedly has mischaracterized her vote, saying it happened during a committee hearing on the bill, which she said needed improvement before advancing to the full House. She fired back at Rutinel for his vote this session to pass the state budget, which included cuts to Medicaid to address a gigantic shortfall.

“I would absolutely not have voted to cut Medicaid,” she said.

Thursday’s event was organized and conducted by the Colorado Sun.

The candidates will square off on June 30 in the Democratic primary, with the winner going on to face Evans in November. Control of Congress is at stake in the midterms, with Republicans now holding a , with one independent and five vacancies.

Conspicuously absent from the stage in Greeley on Thursday was Evan Munsing, a Marine veteran who quit the race the day before, citing the stark financial advantages his two opponents hold.

Rutinel had outraised Munsing by nearly a factor of six, while Bird has brought in nearly three times the $600,000 or so Munsing had raised as of the end of March, according to the most recent campaign finance numbers posted with the .

Evans outguns them all, having raised nearly $4.3 million to Rutinel’s nearly $3.5 million at the end of March.

Bird and Rutinel also traded barbs on Bird’s decision to step down from the legislature in January to run for the 8th District, with Rutinel saying “she quit the legislature when her constituents needed her most.” Bird said she stepped down to put “150%” into her congressional campaign.

“I did not want a tax-funded salary while I was running,” she said.

The two candidates agreed on a number of things, including opposition to a federal ban on hydraulic fracturing to extract oil, support for a ban on oil and gas leases on federal land and support for a boost in the federal minimum wage.

The 8th Congressional District is home to many oil and gas operations.

On the subject of data centers, a hot topic, Bird and Rutinel said more guardrails are needed on the tech facilities, especially when it comes to their use of water and electric power. Bird said companies that build data centers have to account for their water use “so they are never competing with our limited water supply.”

Rutinel said data centers “should be using renewable energy as much as possible.”

Both candidates were in favor of exploring the idea of raising taxes on people making $400,000 to $500,000 a year to help pay for social programs. Bird said money being spent on the war in Iran, which she opposes, could be redirected to social programs in this country.

“We can afford so many programs, and don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise,” Rutinel said.

The 8th Congressional District covers Greeley and a small chunk of Larimer County and then heads south into Adams County, taking in several suburban communities north of Denver, including Commerce City, Thornton and Northglenn. The district was created after the 2020 census revealed that population growth in Colorado merited adding an additional representative from the state to the congressional delegation in Washington.

It was deliberately drawn to be Colorado’s most politically competitive district, and in its first four years, it has had both a Democrat and a Republican in the seat. The Cook Political Report rates the 8th District as one of in the country this year.

The police department loosened its policy on April 14 to allow officers to use Tasers to shock suspects when suspects are engaging in defensive resistance — an about-face from the department’s years-long approach of allowing Taser use only when suspects take aggressive action against others, Denver Independent Monitor Lisabeth PĂ©rez Castle wrote in a .

The police department rescinded the new policy on April 24 after members of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board on that day criticized both the change and the police department’s apparent failure to seek community input during the board’s

The policy was “published in error,” and was rescinded when that error was discovered, police spokesman Doug Schepman said in a statement Friday. The department will consider feedback from the and respond to the monitor’s recommendations as it continues to revise the Taser use-of-force policy going forward, he said.

Julia Richman, a member of the Citizen Oversight Board, said she appreciated the department putting the brakes on the change and said doing so was necessary for police to comply with city law.

“Backtracking was the only right thing to do in this case, so that they can actually do what is required of them,” she said.

New Tasers, new approach

The new policy would have allowed officers to use Tasers when suspects are “displaying only defensive resistance,” according to the report from the Office of the Independent Monitor. That would include physical actions to prevent an officer’s control — such as curling into a ball — as well as flight or attempts to flee from officers, according to the monitor’s report. Schepman said Friday that using a Taser on a fleeing suspect would still be prohibited under the proposed new policy.

The department¶¶Ňőap was put in place in 2018 after months of discussion with stakeholders and community members. It allows officers to use Tasers only if suspects are taking aggressive actions – that is, assaulting or threatening to assault others in a way that was likely to cause imminent injury.

The broader approach under consideration would give officers the authority to use Tasers on “substantially more community members,” PĂ©rez Castle said.

“That could lead to more harm at the hands of law enforcement for the community, it could lead to additional liability for the city, and it is a step backward from the demands of the community,” she said.

Police officials moved to change the Taser guidelines after the department upgraded its equipment to a newer type of Taser with new capabilities, Thomas told members of the Citizen Oversight Board during the April 24 meeting.

The newer model Taser carries a maximum 1,000 volts instead of 50,000 volts, can reach 45 feet instead of 25 feet and can carry 10 cartridges instead of two, Schepman said Friday. The newer model is not capable of operating in “,” a pain compliance technique in which an officer presses the Taser directly against a person’s body.

“Our policy team did some research and identified that DPD was an outlier in having active aggression be the threshold by which a Taser activation is appropriate,” Thomas said during the April 24 meeting. “What that results in is greater opportunity for injury for suspects and officers. The proposed changes to the policy include reducing the threshold one level to defensive resistance so that officers are able to more quickly engage and get individuals under control without the risk of injury to suspects or officers.”

The monitor’s review found that of 23 law enforcement agencies it surveyed across the country, including in the 20 largest U.S. cities, nine required the suspect to show active aggression or pose an immediate safety threat to others before an officer could use a Taser. Eleven agencies allowed officers to use Tasers if the suspect exhibited active resistance or posed a threat to others. Another three departments had “lower or ill-defined standards,” according to the report.

Lack of community engagement

The Office of the Independent Monitor received only five days’ notice of the policy change, and the police department implemented the policy before receiving the watchdog’s feedback, PĂ©rez Castle wrote. That could be a violation of city ordinance, which requires police officials to give the monitor’s office “reasonable notice” to review and make recommendations about proposed policy changes before adopting the changes, she wrote.

Richman said the police department’s approach to this policy change echoes how police leadership sought to broadly change officer discipline without community input last year.

“This is just one more example of the disregard for the function and legal requirements that surround the OIM needing to review policies,” Richman said. “It disregards the concerns and opinions of the community. …The current policy was the (result) of a lot of discussion with the community, and the active aggression level was the result of a lot of community feedback. So this change isn’t just some quick modification, this is a change that goes against the collaboration with community and the recommendation of the community that had long been standing practice.”

Tasers, which deliver an electrical charge that can cause pain and immobilize a person, can be used safely . Lawsuits over such deaths have cost Colorado cities and counties millions of dollars in recent years.

Colorado Springs agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a lawsuit in 2025 after a police officer shocked a man eight times with a Taser while the man resisted being handcuffed in 2018. The man died. Larimer County settled a lawsuit in 2024 for $5 million after a sheriff’s deputy shocked a man with a Taser as he fled onto Interstate 25. The man was hit by a passing car and killed as he lay incapacitated in the road.

Qusair Mohamedbhai, whose law firm handled the Larimer County lawsuit, said Friday that Denver’s proposed new policy is “extremely dangerous.” He noted that Taser use also tends to rapidly escalate a situation, rather than de-escalate it.

“When tasers are ineffective, for whatever reason – maybe there is only one prong that hits – we find there is an immediate escalation to firearms,” he said.

The Denver Police Department has over the past decade routinely disciplined officers for using Tasers on suspects who were not acting aggressively, according to the monitor’s report, including incidents in which officers tased a restrained man who resisted being handcuffed and tased a man who was running away.

The report made a number of policy recommendations around Taser use, including that the weapons continue to be restricted to incidents where suspects take aggressive action, and that the police department formalize a procedure for public input on such changes.

Company officials this week slapped an “opening soon” label on a new , though the exact opening date is still under wraps, according to the chain’s website.

The 3,860-square-foot restaurant is opening at 4911 Cima Vista Drive, just off of Interstate 25 south of Fort Collins, and will bring In-N-Out’s Front Range footprint to 15 stores.

Company leaders also want to open an , according to city records. The chain submitted a concept review for a new restaurant at 4181 W. 120th Ave.  and is proposing a 3,890-square-foot building and 1,400-square-foot outdoor patio.

Next steps for the proposed Broomfield location include a neighborhood meeting, formal review, land use review commission hearing and City Council hearing.

In-N-Out opened its first Colorado location in 2020 and now sells burgers at stores in Arvada, Aurora, Brighton, Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Denver, Lakewood, Lone Tree, Longmont, Loveland, Parker and Thornton.

The Colorado Department of Transportation installed sensors and roadside cameras on the Interstate 25 North corridor between Berthoud and Fort Collins to detect when a vehicle enters and exits express lanes in an effort to improve safety, according to a .

Weaving in and out of express lanes is dangerous and increases the risks of car crashes because of the significant differences in speeds between express lane and general purpose lane drivers, according to the press release.

“We’re seeing very positive results from this technology,” CDOT spokesperson Tim Hoover stated in the press release. “In corridors where it¶¶Ňőap already in place, violations have dropped by over 90%, which translates to safer conditions and fewer crashes and close calls for everyone on the road.”

Drivers who enter and exit express lanes outside of the designated areas may receive a $75 fine in the mail, according to a CDOT press release.

If the fine isn’t paid within 20 days, it increases to $150, according to the press release. Fines are sent directly to the address that the vehicle is registered to, and the penalty can be paid online,, or via phone, 1-800-343-2633.

During the 30-day grace period that began April 7, the Colorado Department of Transportation issued 3,504 warnings to drivers who entered and exited express lanes on the Interstate 25 North corridor, according to the press release.

Express lanes are marked with dashed and solid lines, according to the press release, and drivers may only enter and exit express lanes when the dashed line is on the side closest to them.

“In other words, a dashed line on the side closest to you means you can cross, and a solid line on the side closest to you means you cannot,” the press release stated.

The fines are part of the , which is managed by the Colorado Transportation Investment Office, a business within CDOT.

Eventually, the program will apply to all express lane corridors in the state, but the currently enforced areas are on the I-70 Mountain corridor between Idaho Springs and Empire, C-470 between I-25 and Wadsworth Boulevard, I-25 between US 36 and E-470, I-70 between I-25 and Chambers Road, and I-25 between Monument and Castle Rock, according to the . Enforcement began in .

For more information on Colorado’s express lanes and a video on how to detect when it¶¶Ňőap OK to enter and exit, visit .

Roger Leon Estergaard will receive credit for 100 hours served in the Larimer County jail since his arrest in 2024 on suspicion of internet sexual exploitation of a child, internet luring of a child and attempted sexual assault of a child, all felonies, Larimer County District Attorney spokesperson Kylie Massman said.

Judge Juan Villasenor issued the sentence with the conditions that Estergaard have no contact with anyone under 18 and that he register as a sex offender, according to the court order.

Fort Collins police identified Estergaard through his “inappropriate engagement with an underage online persona” and arrested him in July 2024 after he traveled to Fort Collins believing he was meeting a juvenile girl for sex.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital with second-degree burns from fighting the Ponds fire, which started in the 1200 block of Catalpa Place at around 5 p.m., Poudre Fire Authority officials said in a post on X.

The fire burned approximately 8 acres before crews gained containment just after 7 p.m., according to the agency.

Most voluntary and all mandatory evacuation orders were lifted as of 7 p.m.

Firefighters are strengthening the fire line around the fire to ensure no further spread. The fire is estimated at 8 acres at this time. Fire suppression aircraft are responding to strengthen the fire line.

— poudrefire (@poudrefire)