A fire burning southwest of the Springs is now fully contained.

Smoke was seen coming from popular hiking spot St. Peter's Dome shortly after 10 Wednesday morning.

"Somebody called it in pretty quickly, and we were able to jump on it fairly quick," said U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Dawn Sanchez.

Firefighters from both the Forest Service and El Paso County Wildland Team responded immediately, with aerial resources called in just in case.

The fire was burning in a spot Sanchez said would normally be covered with snow.

"It's on a southeast-facing slope and it's fairly dry on that slope, which is surprising for this time of year," she said.

Sometimes the fires in more rugged terrain are hard to reach, but firefighters were able to hike to this one. Several hours after arriving, they had completed containment lines around 95 percent of the fire. Crews also kept the fire from growing beyond a tenth of an acre.

The Forest Service announced Thursday afternoon that they had contained the remaining 5 percent of the fire.

Sanchez said the fire could have been much worse had it been windier or warmer. With nearly all of the recent fires being human-caused and very preventable, she urged the public to practice extreme caution outside.

"It's extremely dry right now. We need to make people aware that you're not throwing cigarette butts out windows off the side of trails. We need to make sure that they keep their campfires small and make sure they were out cold completely before they leave. It's really important that we pay attention to any sort of thing that can start a fire: that can be a chain dragging from a trailer, that could be faulty brakes on a vehicle, a number of things. We need to be really cognizant of what we're doing.

"This is the sixth fire that we've had up high on the forest this year, which is fairly concerning for us. If we don't have a wet spring, then we are going to have a busy fire season."

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.