More than 500 families may enter a new year having lost their homes after runaway grass fires bore down on the region northwest of Denver on Thursday, but others were returning to their neighborhoods Friday and no deaths had been reported.
Approximately 34,000 residents of the towns of Superior and Louisville in Boulder County fled the “life-threatening” situation Thursday as 100-mph-plus winds acted like a turbine fanning the flames.
...“If people chose not to evacuate, didn’t hear the knocking from the deputies, I’m afraid that we are going to learn of some fatalities in these homes because people literally had minutes to get out,” Superior Mayor Clint Folsom told The Washington Post on Friday.
The estimate from Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle that more than 500 homes burned means the blaze may have destroyed the most property of any fire in Colorado history, local tallies suggest. Pelle said the total may surpass 1,000 homes and several commercial buildings.
The estimate from Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle that more than 500 homes burned means the blaze may have destroyed the most property of any fire in Colorado history, local tallies suggest. Pelle said the total may surpass 1,000 homes and several commercial buildings.
“In many of those neighborhoods that are currently blocked off, it’s still too dangerous to return,” he told reporters Friday. “We saw still-active fire in many places this morning. We saw downed power lines, we saw a lot of risk that we’re still trying to mitigate.”...MORE
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