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Colorado State Trooper Jason Bandy and Rosemarie Owens with La Plata County Search and Rescue check to see if Kristi Burk has her Rapid Tag which will allow her to get back to her Rockwood home on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, after mandatory evacuations of part of the U.S. Highway 550 corridor were lifted. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Colorado State Trooper Jason Bandy, checks to see if Joe Hardman has his Rapid Tag, which will allow him back to his Rockwood home on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, after mandatory evacuations of part of the U.S. Highway 550 corridor were lifted. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Brandon Young is one of the first in line at the road block on U.S. Highway 550 and Cometti/Mead Lane to get back to his Cascade home after mandatory evacuations of part of the U.S. Highway 550 corridor were lifted on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Evacuees, mixed in with other cars, line up at the road block on U.S. Highway 550 and Cometti/Mead Lane to go home after mandatory evacuations of part of the U.S. Highway 550 corridor were lifted on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

What looks like a thunderstorm is actually smoke from the 416 Fire behind the U.S. Highway 550 road block at Cometti/Mead Lane on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Matthew Bailey, who is on pre-evacuation notice, holds his Rapid Tag on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, after Tara Howard issued it to him in front of PJs Gourmet Market at Trimble Crossing. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

416 Fire Incident Commander Todd Pechota, gives a media update on the fire with La Plata County Sean Smith next to him on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, at the incident command post at Animas Valley Elementary School. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

A helicopter fills its bucket in a tank near the Falls Creek Ranch subdivision on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, while battling the 416 Fire. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Rosemarie Owens, with La Plata County Search and Rescue, checks to see if Cindy Kring has her Rapid Tag, which will allow her back to her Glacier Club home on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, after mandatory evacuations of part of the U.S. Highway 550 corridor were lifted. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

Smoke rises from a 416 Fire burn area as the sun sets on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, west of the Falls Creek Ranch subdivision. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald

The 416 Fire sends up a plume of smoke on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 13, 2018, on the southwest side of the burn area. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald