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The nearly 13,000-acre wildfire burning in eastern Utah crossed the Colorado border Monday night, joining four other fires already burning on the western slope, fire officials said.
The South Rim Fire and other western slope blazes led to three Colorado counties being declared disasters. See the latest map of the fires.
The fires varied in size but have already forced several evacuations and pre-evacuation notices, closed a national park, and the Deer Creek Fire near the Utah state line has already destroyed at least five buildings.
A 10,058-acre Utah fire has crossed over the border into Colorado as the Southwest continues to experience wildfires, including one that created a vortex of flames
The visitor center and a wastewater treatment plant were among the 50 to 80 structures lost, the park superintendent said. The area was evacuated Thursday.
At least four uncontained wildfires burning across Colorado’s western slope on Sunday, which together have destroyed thousands of acres, prompted Gov. Jared Polis to issue a disaster