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Wildfire near Fort Collins has consumed over 5000 acres…

Smoke from the fire at Fort Collins drifts from the SW to the NE into the Panhandle of Nebraska. Photo from NWS via Facebook
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Crews are battling a wildfire in northern Colorado that has scorched 5,000 acres and prompted several dozen evacuation orders.

Larimer County Sheriff’s spokesman John Schulz says the fire was reported just before 6 a.m. Saturday in the Paradise Park area. He says at least 46 structures and likely many more have been evacuated, and an evacuation center has been set up at a middle school in Laporte.

Ten structures have been damaged, although authorities were unsure if they were homes or some other kind of buildings.

A sheriff’s statement says two heavy air tankers, five single-engine air tankers and four helicopters are on the scene.

The fire appears to be burning on private and U.S. Forest Service land.

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