Ptarmigan fire forces 200 homes to be evacuated in Silverthorne

A wildfire sparked supra Silverthorne connected Monday, prompting a scramble of firefighting, aerial attacks and evacuations.

While the blaze instantly threatens nary homes, evacuations were underway wrong an hr of the fire’s archetypal reports. As of Tuesday morning, the precocious and little Hamilton Creek neighborhoods person been evacuated, with those successful the adjacent Angler Mountain Ranch and South 40 neighborhoods were placed nether a pre-evacuation notice.

“Our apical precedence is nationalist safety,” said Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons successful a quality release. “We similar to err much connected the broadside of caution and marque definite that we person everybody retired earlier determination is an imminent threat.”

The Ptarmigan occurrence is chiefly connected White River National Forest property, burning dense mixed timber, including dense stands of dead-standing and downfall lodgepole pines. So far, it has scarred betwixt 25 and 40 acres of land, astir 30 acres eastbound of Silverthorne.

Summit Middle School, which is inactive hosting school, is the tract of an American Red Cross evacuation shelter. It’s located astatine 158 School Road successful Frisco.

As aboriginal arsenic Monday evening, a chopper and 3 planes were moving the fire. Summit Fire & EMS, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Forest Service are progressive successful handling the blaze. Additional resources are expected to get Tuesday.

“We volition person a beingness successful those neighborhoods done the nighttime to show the fire,” said Summit Fire & EMS Chief Travis Davis successful a release. “Our extremity is to support the occurrence distant from developed areas and deed it hard successful the morning.”

Weather is expected to crook Tuesday evening into Wednesday arsenic a beforehand moves into the area. Temperatures are expected to driblet with rainfall moving into the region.

Trails successful and astir Ptarmigan and Angler Mountain person been closed.

Good morning. The #ptarmiganfire is burning implicit astir 30 acres supra Silverthorne successful Summit County this greeting and the Hamilton Creek vicinity is nether mandatory evacuation orders. @CPRNews pic.twitter.com/xwKLB8lZW8

— Hart W. Van Denburg (@hartoutwest) September 28, 2021

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