Friday CUP KKIM/KARS
Updated Fourmile Canyon wildfire information as of 8 p.m. on Thursday
No deaths as a result of the fire have been reported. Two firefighters sustained minor injuries and returned to the lines.
The Fourmile Canyon wildfire is still approximately 6,150 acres in size and has forced the mandatory evacuation of more than 3,000 residents living in the steep, rugged and heavily forested foothills west of the City of Boulder. Teams are working to catalog burned structures and to investigate the fire’s cause and origin.
An updated map of the burn area and evacuation perimeter is posted online.
The Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that 172 structures have been destroyed, 169 of which are homes, and an additional 25 structures that have been damaged.
More than 700 firefighters, from at least 35 local, regional and national agencies are working to contain the active fire. Dozens of aircraft, including heavy fixed-wing air tankers and helitankers, have joined the effort.
Communities east of the Peak-to-Peak Highway, south of Lefthand Canyon Drive, west of Olde Stage Road and north of Boulder Canyon Drive (Colo. Highway 119) will remain evacuated until further notice. Residents will be informed when any evacuations have been lifted.
A list of informational resources for displaced individuals is posted online.
An emergency shelter is operating at the Boulder YMCA located at 2850 Mapleton Ave. Food, water and insurance resources are available courtesy of the American Red Cross. More information is available on the Mile High Chapter website.
At 10 a.m. Thursday, certain communities within the evacuation area were opened to allow residents to gather what they need from their homes and be prepared to evacuate again. Those areas were again closed as of 12:30 p.m., and all residents who entered those areas were asked to leave under a mandatory evacuation order as of 2 p.m. Thursday.
The areas include:
• Boulder Heights
• Pine Brook Hills
• Carriage Hills
• Olde Stage Road
• Lee Hill Drive
PLEASE NOTE: Utilities such as electricity, gas and phones remain off in most of these areas. Since phones are out, residents should not rely on reverse citizen notification to inform them about new evacuations. Sheriff’s deputies patrolled the neighborhoods to let people know they need to evacuate again.
Additionally, the openings of Lefthand Canyon Drive, Sunshine Canyon Drive, Fourmile Canyon Drive and Sugarloaf Road that were tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday were cancelled. Residents should not attempt to return to their homes if they live along any of those roads.
Then last night we received the report of the explosion in California, a gas line, One person has been killed and 53 homes destroyed. Let us pray on that.
SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Firefighters poured water on flaming and smoldering wreckage early Friday after a massive explosion sent blazes roaring through a neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco, killing at least one person, destroying more than 50 homes and damaging dozens of others.
Thursday night’s explosion shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet in the air and sent frightened residents fleeing for safety and rushing to get belongings out of burning homes, witnesses said.
Utility officials said a gas line ruptured in the vicinity of the blast, which left a giant crater and sent flames tearing across several suburban blocks in San Bruno just after 6 p.m.
The son of Billy Graham has had his own controversial history with Islam, describing the religion as evil in 2001.
But he says Pastor Terry Jones is going too far if he burns Qurans this Saturday. He said he has tried to call Jones but hasn’t made contact.
Graham, in a statement issued by his North Carolina church, said it’s always wrong to deface or destroy any religion’s holy writings, even those someone disagrees with. He said Jones has the right as an American to burn the Qurans as a political act, but that doesn’t make it right.
ps to cup……….
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
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