A 15-acre wildfire in Pueblo pressured the evacuation of an animal shelter Sunday amid dry and windy circumstances that made containing the blaze troublesome.
The hearth broke out Sunday afternoon alongside the Arkansas River east of the intersection of W. eleventh Road and Pueblo Boulevard, Pueblo Fireplace Division Capt. Woody Percival stated.
Residents in about 15 homes close to the hearth had been requested to be able to evacuate however weren’t pressured to depart Sunday afternoon, Percival stated. The Paws for Life animal shelter at 800 N. Pueblo Blvd. was evacuated and the animals relocated to a protected place.
Wildland hearth in progress close to PAWS east of Pueblo Blvd. Please DO NOT come and add to issues to be a lookey-loo. Some homes had been threatened initially. Poor circumstances anticipated to worsen. pic.twitter.com/7eEbp9szxU
— Pueblo Fireplace Dept (@PFDPIO) April 10, 2022
The hearth was burning between the agricultural housing improvement and a water remedy plant on the river, shifting by 3-foot-tall grass and tall old-growth timber, with winds of about 15 to twenty mph and low humidity, Percival stated.
“The entire issues that add as much as a foul state of affairs with a hearth,” he stated.
About 45 firefighters from quite a lot of companies had been attacking the blaze, and it was “considerably contained” by about 3:30 p.m., Percival stated, although he added firefighters had been “struggling to maintain it in its boundaries proper in the mean time.”
The reason for the hearth was unclear Sunday.
