U.S. Forest Service fire suppression officials on Friday declared the 20-acre Rampart fire west of Colorado Springs fully contained, though stumps still were smoldering.
Firefighters have constructed a protective line around the perimeter of the blackened burn zone, officials announced in a tweet. And firefighting crews will continue to patrol the burn zone to control hotspots, the officials said.
This fire broke out in the mountain foothills above the city on Tuesday in dry, windy, unusually warm weather — within the burn scar from the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire.
About 50 firefighters were deployed as flames burned grass and Ponderosa pines in an area near houses, about 2.5 miles southeast of Woodland Park. An aircraft dropped water on flames. The cause hasn’t been determined.
