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About 800 homes destroyed so far in Superior, Louisville, and South Boulder.
Six people transferred to UCHeath Hospital in Broomfield for burn injuries.
Superior, Louisville, and parts of Broomfield under evacuation orders. Some entire neighborhoods have been destroyed.
This is not one where you can stay and fight the fire.
This is a grass fire fueled by cheatgrass, an invasive species which grows early and fast then dries out late in the season and becomes kindling. It is a problem all over the west.
This place is always on fire.
Horrible. It’s been very dry. Firefighters are helpless in the high winds. Our son is near the evacuation zone - fortunately to the west. It’s going to be a long night for a lot of people.
Terrible situation. Looks like on the radar precipitation is almost on the area.
We were there in September this year and last year. In 2020 we drove Trail Ridge Road at dusk with ash coming down as we drove, very strange experience.
Watched in horror as Grand Lake was almost destroyed about 2 weeks after we came home.
Went to Grand Lake again this September, and saw just how close the fire got to town in 2020. Literally across the road.
I have a friend who had to flee her home in Lafayette. Scary.
I live about 5 miles from Superior, CO. My wife and I bugged out about 3:00pm and went to our daughter’s house on the East side of Denver. Our neighborhood is currently pre-evacuation so we won’t be going home tonight.
i live about 20 minutes north of this fire and can see the massive smoke plume ... this fire is REALLY bad news: this is not a mountain fire in a sparely populated area, but instead is an urban fire burning out of control in heavily populated suburbs ...
we’ve had almost no moisture for many weeks and have had very high winds every day for the last 2-3 weeks, so it started out as dry as i’ve ever seen it in this area since i move here 37 years ago, AND these continuous warm dry winds have dried it out even more ... the fire potential here is explosive and my fear is we could see more of these devastating fires ...
SUPPOSEDLY we’ll be getting a bit of moisture for the first time Friday evening and Friday night, maybe a few inches of snow ... that’ll probably help some, but if these winds keep up, the moisture could be gone in just a few hours ...
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Very sad. Prayers to St. Florian. I remember the 1991 firestorm that destroyed 2,800 super nice homes worth $2.5 billion in the Oakland Hills in Calif. We watched from Rockridge Ave. and the winds were brutal. “Diablo Winds” they were called.