UPDATE: Additional Evacuations Ordered Because Of Fire

UPDATE 3 P.M: Laramie County authorities have issued additional evacuations orders because of a large fire;

EVACUATION EVACUATION EVACUATION RESIDENTS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY SUBDIVISION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF BOUNDARY ROAD WEST TO HAPPY JACK ROAD AND NORTH OF HAPPY JACK ROAD TO DUSTY ROAD NEED TO EVACUATE NOW.

Cheyenne Frontier Days has posted the following in it's Facebook page:

UPDATE: Jeanine West with Laramie County Emergency Management tells Townsquare Media that the order has been issued in regard to a large fire.

ORIGINAL POST: Laramie County has issued an evacuation order for residents along road 117. The following emergency alert was issued just after noon on Friday.

EVACUATION EVACUATION EVACUATION ALL RESIDENTS ALONG ROAD 117 SOUTH OF HORSE CREEK ROAD EVACUATE NOW

Unofficial sources tell Townsquare Media that the order is due to a fire, but we have not yet verified that.