LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — A person was cited for arson after a wildfire broke out in Laporte northwest of Fort Collins Tuesday afternoon.
A mandatory evacuation alert was issued at 12:31 p.m. on Tuesday and included the 4300 block of W. County Road 54G (also called US 287 B). It warned residents to leave immediately. This order was lifted at 1:37 p.m.
In addition, voluntary evacuations were ordered at 12:40 p.m. for the Cache la Poudre River area from Rawhide Drive to the new 287 bypass and north of the 287 bypass, the alert read. These voluntary evacuation orders were lifted at 1:34 p.m.
A map of the evacuation area is below.
The Poudre Fire Authority extinguished the second-alarm wildland fire around 1:50 p.m., according to the department. The fire burned about 17 acres.
The Larimer County Sheriff's Office cited one person for fourth-degree arson, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The sheriff's office only identified the person as an adult.
According to the sheriff's office, there were 1,319 contacts in the voluntary evacuation area and 822 contacts in the mandatory evacuation area. Contacts are the number of devices registered for alerts, not the number of structures or people impacted.
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