Overview
- Larry County ordered residents along County Road 31 to leave, with alerts going out Wednesday morning through NoCo Alert, the county’s emergency text and call system.
- Officials urged voluntary evacuations for Blue Mountain and Spring Valley, two neighborhoods west of the reservoir near Berthoud.
- The wildfire burning south of Carter Lake was about 10 acres on state land, the sheriff’s office said, and a helicopter was ordered to assist.
- Crews from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, the state wildfire division, and the Berthoud and Loveland fire departments responded to the scene.
- Investigators are looking into the cause, and authorities had not released containment figures in the early updates.