New mandatory evacuations were ordered in the Lee fire late Friday night and early Saturday morning as the blaze grew nearly 30,000 acres on Colorado’s Western Slope near Meeker.

MEEKER, Colo. — The Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Office in western Colorado has issued evacuation orders for two wildfires burning in the area. One fire, named the Elk Fire, has burned about 3,000 acres in the Oak Ridge area about 10 miles east of Meeker, the Bureau of Land Management said. It's burning on BLM, state and private lands.