Nearly 200 firefighters are working the South Rim fire at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. A lightning storm Thursday sparked numerous fires.

The Deer Creek and South Rim fires are burning in Montrose County, with the South Rim Fire estimated at 3,500 acres as of Sunday morning. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in southwestern Colorado is closed due to wildfires on both rims of the canyon.

So far, that fire is nearly 3,000 acres and 0% contained.

The fires varied in size but have already forced several evacuations and pre-evacuation notices, closed a national park, and the Deer Creek Fire near the Utah state line has already destroyed at least five buildings.

We are continuing to track the fires all across western Colorado, with the South Rim Fire within the Black Canyon of the Gunnison seeing over 1,600 acres burned as of midnight this morning.

On Friday, multiple fire officials and agencies released updates and plans to address the South Rim Fire, which is one of two lightning-caused fires in the Black

Plumes of smoke fill the sky on the eastern side of Montrose County. On Thursday around noon, two fires broke out at the north and south rims of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. With the South Rim being the bigger of the two being mapped at 1,