A fire burning near the town of Pagosa Springs is nearly 50% contained, and Archuleta County officials say evacuations due to the fire will be lifting Wednesday.

More than half a dozen wildfires continued to burn across Colorado Monday, including a new fire that sparked on Sunday afternoon near Pagosa Springs.

A Colorado prison was evacuated because of a fast-growing wildfire that’s already one of the largest in state history, officials said. The spread of the Lee Fire in western Colorado forced the relocation of 179 incarcerated people at the Rifle Correctional Center to the Buena Vista Correctional Complex on Aug.