Heavy rainfall became a life-threatening situation in southern Colorado when about 100 Boy Scouts needed to be evacuated from the wilderness Tuesday morning.

The boys were hunkered down at the Spanish Peaks Boy Scout Ranch in Huerfano County, Colorado, according to KRDO-TV. The heavy rains came, and officials decided they couldn't let the group stay there any longer for fear of flash flooding stranding them in the elements. The scouts left the Ranch on school buses and sheriff's vehicles before dawn Tuesday after rain caused a creek on the property near Walsenburg to rise.

The flash flooding was caused by a storm that brought heavy rain to the area at around 2 a.m. local time early Tuesday, said weather.com meteorologist Linda Lam. 

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The group was relocated to an evacuation center opened by the Red Cross at Walsenburg Community Center, KRDO-TV also said. By midday on Tuesday, authorities cleared them to return.  Scout executive Michael Stewart says the scouts, most of them from southwestern Kansas, were camping in tents above Bear Creek and weren't in immediate danger.

This isn't the first time a natural disaster has forced Boy Scouts out of the ranch. In July 2013, the East Peak fire shut down the camp for 12 days, according to KDVR. The blaze torched several buildings at the camp, and 80 percent of the trees in the area were lost, the report added.

According to one local reporter, the Boy Scout troop pushed out by the fire is the same group that was evacuated Tuesday morning:

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