{"id":403061,"date":"2026-08-11T00:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:42:22","slug":"colorado-wildfire-evacuation-order-lifted-in-el-paso-county-for-rapidly-growing-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403061\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado wildfire: Evacuation order lifted in El Paso County for &#8216;rapidly growing fire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuation orders have been lifted by the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office after an unknown number of El Paso County homes were ordered to evacuate on Monday when a fire sparked near Colorado Springs.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mandatory evacuations were issued for homes on Passing Sky Drive, and road closures were in effect for Bradley Road, Grinnell Boulevard and Goldfield Drive, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EPCSheriff\/status\/2086922620243747219?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso County officials said the evacuations were sparked by a \u201crapidly growing fire,\u201d but additional details about the fire were not available.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SFDColorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Security Fire Department<\/a> is the lead agency on the fire, county officials said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office has a mandatory evacuation of Passing Sky Drive for a rapidly growing fire. The road closures include Bradley\/ Grinnell Blvd. and Bradley\/Goldfield Dr.  Security Fire is the lead agency and EPSO patrol deputies are assisting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9qxFtmYpb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9qxFtmYpb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EPCSheriff (@EPCSheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EPCSheriff\/status\/2086922620243747219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students who live in the area and who use Widefield School District 3 bus transportation will be returned to their schools, where parents can pick them up, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EPCSheriff\/status\/2086924335625994409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the sheriff\u2019s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evacuation orders have been lifted by the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office after an unknown number of El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[943,944,14442,19357,141225,138,1060,19359,1536,140,139,16309,3607,223,41594,42419,840,172,5607],"class_list":["post-403061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-colorado-springs","tag-colorado-wildfires","tag-colorado-wildfires-2026","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-county-sheriff","tag-el-paso-county-sheriffs-office","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-road-closures","tag-security-widefield","tag-transportation","tag-weather","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403061","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=403061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}