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Updated at 6:54 p.m. on April 23, 2026. A wildfire is burning next to Horsetooth Reservoir, just south of the Colorado State University Foothills Campus, in west Fort Collins. The 8-acre blaze has forced the evacuation of some homes there. Officials have ordered mandatory evacua…
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