Yet more residents of Gateway have been ordered to evacuate from the area, according to a press release issued by the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday.

The Turner Gulch Fire in Unaweep Canyon northeast of Gateway grew another 5,000 acres between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, burning 13,984 acres south of Colorado State Highway 141.

Multiple resources from across the state, including a local Colorado Springs Fire Department crew, have responded to the Colorado Western Slope as wildfires continue to burn without containment.

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.

Fire officials are hosting a meeting on the Turner Gulch and Wright Draw fires at the Gateway Community Center on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The meeting will be live-streamed on the Turner Gulch and Wright Draw Fire Facebook page.

The Turner Gulch wildfire continues to wreak havoc on the Western Slope, as Wednesday’s update had the blaze near 14,000 acres. This isn’t the only

The Grand Junction Fire Department (GJFD) helped the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in fighting the Turner Gulch Fire near Gateway.

She and her family live along Highway 141 in Unaweep Canyon, which stretches from Whitewater to Gateway. Her home is in the evacuation zone for the Turner Gulch Fire, which has grown to nearly 14,000 acres — more than 20 square miles — as of Wednesday morning.