Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Gaylon Wampler)
Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Gaylon Wampler)
Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Gaylon Wampler)
This Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service shows the Fontenelle Fire burning in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyo. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Mary Cernicek said the Fontenelle Fire ? the first major wildfire of the season in western Wyoming ? grew from about 300 acres to 2,000 acres on Tuesday due to strong winds. There was no containment as of Wednesday despite the efforts of about 90 firefighters. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service)
The Waldo Canyon Fire begins to burn homes north of Garden of the Gods Road in northwest Colorado Springs, Colo., on the fourth day of the blaze Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
The Waldo Canyon Fire begins to burn homes in the Rock Rimmon area of northwest Colorado Springs, Colo., on the fourth day of the blaze Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
A raging wildfire roared through neighborhoods and forced 32,000 residents of Colorado Springs to flee their homes.
The 24-square mile fire scorched the edges of the U.S. Air Force Academy on Wednesday. Thick smoke and towering flames cloaked the full scope of damage to Colorado's second-largest city.
President Barack Obama plans to tour the area on Friday.
A separate fire burning in northern Colorado has grown to 136-square miles and destroyed 257 homes.
Elsewhere in the West, wildfires in central Utah and Billings, Mont., have each destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds of evacuations. Another wildfire in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest has charred about 19 square miles as of Wednesday.
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