Outback View fire in El Paso County burned 2 structures, officials say

A Monday afternoon evacuation order from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office for a small wildfire in an area west of Interstate 25, halfway between Pueblo and Colorado Springs, has been cancelled.

The sheriff’s office announced shortly after 6 p.m. that residents who had evacuated an area within a 1/2-mile radius of the 20700 block of Outback View, about six miles west of Wigwam, could return.

The Hanover Fire Protection District, which is based a few miles south of Fountain, posted on Facebook that two structures burned in the fire — a house and an outbuilding. Investigators are looking at the house as the potential source of the fire, which burned about 50 to 75 acres of grassland…

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