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In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, wildfires fires approach the town of South Fork, Colo. The town of about 400 people was evacuated Friday morning, June 21, 2013.... (Associated Press) 
  
 In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, wildfires fires approach the town of South Fork, Colo. The town of about 400 people was evacuated Friday morning, June 21, 2013.... (Associated Press) 
  
 South Fork is home to about 400 full-time residents and was evacuated as the 47-square-mile acre West Fork Fire moved closer Friday. 
  
 Wildland firefighters were teaming up with local firefighters to try to protect the town, which is surrounded by the Rio Grande National Forest. 
  
 The fire is about seven miles southwest of town and has been advancing at rate of about a mile an hour. 
  
 Fire spokeswoman Penny Bertram says she won't speculate on the likelihood of the town burning, just that it's at high risk. 
  
 THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. 
  
 A massive wildfire working overtime in hot, windy weather was headed toward a tourist town in Colorado's southwestern mountains on Friday, and fire managers rate the chances of saving it as slim if the fire continues its course. 
  
 South Fork, home to about 400 full-time residents, was evacuated as the 47-square-mile acre West Fork Fire moved closer. Wildland firefighters were teaming up with local firefighters to try to save the town, which is surrounded by the Rio Grande National Forest. 
  
 Fire spokesman Penny Bertram said officials rate the chances of saving the town of about 400 full-time residents as "low to moderate." 
  
 Bertram said the hot, dry and windy weather along with large stands of beetle-killed trees are causing extreme fire behavior. While most fires actively burn four hours a day, this one is burning for 12 hours a day, helping it to mushroom in recent days. 
  
 Firefighters have largely let the lightning-sparked fire burn because it's too hot and erratic to fight on the ground. Water and slurry drops from air tankers also haven't been effective, with pilots reporting that their drops largely evaporated before hitting the ground. 
  
 "There's no stopping it," Bertram said. 
  
 The town is a popular spot for hiking and camping. The fictional Griswold family camped in South Fork in 1983's "National Lampoon's Vacation." The famous scene where a dog urinates on a picnic basket was filmed at South Fork's Riverbend Resort, called "Kamp Komfort" in the movie. 
  
 The town was incorporated in 1992, making it Colorado's youngest municipality. ||||| SOUTH FORK — Shifting winds and hard work by firefighters saved the town of South Fork on Friday. But the danger is far from over. 
  
 The West Fork complex, a combination of three wildfires — West Fork, Windy Pass and Papoose — is continuing to spread in steep, rugged terrain through beetle-killed spruce on the west side of Wolf Creek Pass in southwestern Colorado. Conditions will remain hot and dry on Saturday. 
  
 "We have fire crews stationed around town, ready," Mayor Kenneth Brooke said. Those crews worked to remove any debris or woods near threatened structures, shutting down propane tanks. 
  
 "We are at the mercy of this thing," South Fork Police Chief James Garcia said. 
  
 Garcia stressed that, despite some reports on social media, no structures in town have been lost. 
  
 "There hasn't been a flame in town all day," he said around 6:30 p.m. 
  
 Cloud cover and shifting winds late in the afternoon gave crews a boost in their battle on Friday afternoon, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bruce Palmer. 
  
 At 7:30 p.m., more firefighters were able to advance southwest from town to reinforce the crews closer to the blaze. 
  
 Resources assigned to the area included 32 engine crews and two hand crews, according to officials with the emergency operation center in Alamosa. There were 275 personnel working Friday afternoon, fire officials said. 
  
 The town, with an estimated population of 600, is located in Rio Grande County and is noted for a scene from the 1983 Chevy Chase movie "National Lampoon's Vacation," which was filmed there. 
  
 During the summer, the area's population can swell to about 4,000, including campers and vacationers. 
  
 "South Fork evacuees need to prepare to spend at least a couple of days away from home," Matt Smith, Colorado Wildfire Information administrator, said in a news release. 
  
 Winds push a plume of heavy smoke above the West Fork Fire. That fire and the Windy Pass Fire have together grown to more than 4,000 acres. (Photo courtesy The Pagosa Springs Sun) 
  
 Amateur pictures of the blaze posted on social media showed a Hollywood-like inferno, with glowing smoke looming above the town. 
  
 Up to 100 miles from town, thick haze caused cars to use their headlights during the day while the smell of burning wood was inescapable. 
  
 The fire has burned almost 40,000 acres and forced the closure of U.S. 160 over Wolf Creek Pass as well as Colorado 149. 
  
 Resting toward the end of a long day at the Big Meadows Campground, near the spot where the fire started, Kendall Strand, of the elite Monument-based Pike Hot Shots unit, said: "One of the biggest things I noticed is all the dead trees. It's just dry. 
  
 "Once it's in there, it's pretty intense. I haven't seen a lot like it ... 
  
 Smoke looms over the mountains from East Fork Road off U.S. 160 north of Pagosa Springs on Friday afternoon. (Michael Pierce, The Pagosa Springs Sun) 
  
 "We were doing what we could. It's not over." 
  
 Major Lawrence Martin of the State Patrol said erratic winds made the fire especially dangerous. 
  
 "We are afraid if it gets across Highway 149, it has the potential to run right into Saguache (nearly 50 miles to the northeast)," he said. 
  
 Penny Bertram, a West Fork fire spokeswoman with the National Incident Management Organization team, said that the fire had been actively burning for 12 hours a day, helping it grow rapidly. 
  
 Brooke said there were a few residents who didn't evacuate Friday. 
  
 On the east edge of town, near the Alpine subdivision on the banks of the Rio Grande River, Al Keefe and a friend pleaded with a Rio Grande County sheriff's deputy for information on an 85-year-old acquaintance who had refused to leave his house. 
  
 "All we are doing is a favor for his wife," Keefe told the deputy. "We want to make sure he is all right." 
  
 The deputy radioed to colleagues inside the town and reported back. 
  
 "He will not leave," the deputy said. "We can't force him to leave. He said he would pick up and leave if the flames get close enough." 
  
 The fires that make up the complex are believed to have been started by lightning. 
  
 Other wildfires around the state also continued their paths of destruction. 
  
 In southern Colorado, the East Peak fire, 10 miles southwest of Walsenburg, grew to 9,400 acres with zero percent containment. 
  
 Gov. John Hickenlooper declared a disaster emergency Friday afternoon, authorizing $3 million from the Disaster Emergency Fund to pay for fire suppression, response and recovery for East Peak. He also announced on Twitter that federal funds would be available for the West Fork complex. 
  
 The East Peak fire has destroyed at least nine homes and four outbuildings, including the Boy Scout ranch. The cause of that blaze is still unknown. 
  
 Closer to Denver, firefighters worked to keep the Lime Gulch fire in Jefferson County from jumping the South Platte River. More than 280 personnel are assigned to the fire, which has burned 498 acres and is 15 percent contained. 
  
 Late Friday, officials announced that some roads in the area, including the Buffalo Creek Township, would be open to residents only beginning at 8 that night. 
  
 The cause of the fire remains under investigation. |||||
A:
The mountain resort of South Fork, Colorado, is a ghost town today as a massive wildfire approaches. (If you've seen the Chevy Chase movie Vacation, you've seen the place: The Griswolds picnicked there, notes AP.) The town has 400 full-time residents, all of whom had evacuated by this morning, reports the Denver Post. At the peak of summer, the population swells to 10 times its normal size. The wildfire is the result of two separate fires, both started by lightning, that combined last weekend. The resulting blaze had been relatively modest until yesterday, when it more than doubled in size to 30,000 acres.