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Thats near rampart reservoir. There are evacuations due to a Massive Wildfire in southern colorado called the junkins fire. Already more than 13,000 acres have burned there. Hundreds of homes are threatened. Its burning near west cliff, southwest of pueblo. That shows you right there, we have Team Coverage at 5 00. Meteorologist Lauren Whitney tracking the dangerous fire conditions. Want to start though with matt. Those flames really t this morning. In a matter of 12 hours we went from a grass fire about an acre to 13,300 acres. It exploded here behind me outside of the town of west cliff. Eva...

Wind definitely is not helping the firefighters. Red flag warnings are in effect for much of our state. Danielle grant is in the weather center. Some places have been gusts up to 60 mailings an hour. They have been unruly and unfortunately this is what we were imagining happening this afternoon with the strong winds out there and tinder dry conditions. We see wildfires spark up like that. Wind gusts 30 mileperhour in longmont, 60 mile the cheyenne ridge, fort morgan 62 mileperhour wind speeds and 20s and 30s in the denver metro area. These winds will weaken heading towards this afternoon furth...