{"id":361308,"date":"2026-07-04T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:35:33","slug":"evacuations-ordered-for-residents-near-wildfire-burning-south-of-colorado-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361308\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations ordered for residents near wildfire burning south of Colorado Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso County officials have issued an evacuation order for residents near a wildfire burning near Fountain, Colorado, which is about 10 miles south of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is located near Jordan Road and Old Pueblo Road.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pikes-peak-regional-office-of-emergency-management.png#.png\" alt=\"pikes-peak-regional-office-of-emergency-management.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:45 p.m., the El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/member.everbridge.net\/1772417038942752\/notif\/9Dii74Mzc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sent out an alert<\/a> warning nearby residents to leave:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An EVACUATION ORDER has been issued for houses on east side of jordan rd from north intersection of jordan\/old pueblo to south intersection of jordan\/old pueblo due to a FIRE near jordan rd\/old pueblo rd. Everyone in this area is ordered to EVACUATE NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Visit PPROEM.com\/Alerts to view a map of the impacted area. For more information, CHECK local media.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso County officials have issued an evacuation order for residents near a wildfire burning near Fountain, Colorado,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-361308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}