Raging wildfires in south Colorado have consumed homes and forced thousands of evacuations after the area has seen unusually dry and hot weather.
The Black Forest Fire in a heavily wooded residential area northeast of Colorado Springs burned 40 to 60 homes after it broke out Tuesday and prompted evacuations of about 2,300 homes, affecting about 6,400 people, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said late Tuesday.
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The area is not far from last summer’s devastating Waldo Canyon Fire that destroyed 346 homes and killed two.
