After a day of manda­to­ry evac­u­a­tion orders for Red Feath­er Lakes and Crys­tal Lakes res­i­dents, offi­cials report­ed lit­tle growth from the Cameron Peak Fire in a record­ed brief­ing on Monday.

Still, they warned of incom­ing fire weath­er on Tues­day and described efforts to head off an elon­gat­ed area of fire growth to the north known as “the thumb,” which Cory Carl­son of the South­west Area Inci­dent Man­age­ment Team 3 again called the team’s “prob­lem child.”

“A lot of effort and a lot of focus was going into work­ing in this area today,” Dave Gess­er, inci­dent com­man­der, said of the thumb. He men­tioned that three air tankers and five heli­copters per­formed recon­nais­sance on the fire on Mon­day, and that an updat­ed acreage was being calculated.

The fire, which began Aug. 13 near Cham­bers Lake, was burn­ing at 104,157 acres as of Mon­day morning.

Inci­dent mete­o­rol­o­gist Greg Mur­doch said dur­ing Monday’s brief­ing that an incom­ing storm would bring scat­tered show­ers as well as poten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous winds to the area.

He was also doubt­ful that the rain would be enough to extin­guish parts of the fire.

“A tenth of an inch is con­sid­ered to be a ‘wet­ting rain,’” he said. “Oth­er than maybe just a few spots, most of the fire will receive less than a tenth of an inch of rain tomorrow.”

Carl­son talked about the ongo­ing efforts to con­tain the fire dur­ing his seg­ment of the brief­ing. He said heavy con­struc­tion equip­ment was being used to fell trees in the area of the thumb to hem in the fire, adding that a spe­cial­ized hot­shot crew had been request­ed to help bat­tle the blaze.

He said fire­fight­ers would work overnight on the south­east tip of the thumb to try to head off any weath­er-relat­ed surge on Tuesday.

“Were going to try to make some hay tonight and get on this fire’s edge,” he said.

Larimer Coun­ty Sheriff’s Office spokesman David Moore also spoke about the evac­u­a­tions and road­blocks in the area, which are being man­aged by law enforcement.

He said cre­den­tials for those in evac­u­a­tion zones are avail­able at Fort Collins City Hall, and stressed that only evac­uees and first respon­ders were being allowed through a new road­block at Coun­ty Road 37 and Coun­ty Road 74E.

He said the Joint Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter for the fire is reach­able at 970–980-2500 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for those with ques­tions about evac­u­a­tions, access to prop­er­ty, road clo­sures and oth­er issues.

The fire was again report­ed at 15% con­tain­ment on Mon­day, with the edge about 15 miles south­west of Red Feath­er Lakes.

The cause remains under investigation.