Boulder Colorado Wildfires

                          
A wildfire west of Boulder has forced the evacuation of 1,700 people from their homes this past week and nearly 140 homes in three different subdivisions were evacuated.  Portions of the city were also evacuated including a court house buildings and two medical buildings.  The scary part is that the fire was spreading by some 134 acres per day and over 150 firefighters were sent to fight the blaze.  To make matter worse there were reported wind speeds of 17 to 23mph which made defending the blaze difficult but winds did die down by the following day.  This is a case were human error created a natural disaster as the fire was though to be caused in a open space in the city of Boulder.  This is an area where risk management has been assessed I am sure as one women who noted as saying she had to grab her possessions and flee her home because of wildfires for the second time in seven weeks.  Fortunately warning systems were helpful as people were able to grab some of their possessions in enough time before the fires reached their homes.  So far there have been no injuries or damage to buildings and hopefully the weather will prevent this from happening. 

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