![]() “The President is grateful to all of the first responders who have come to the aid of Colorado communities and families impacted by the fires.” “Fortunately, snowfall will help bring an end to the fires, and recovery efforts can get underway,” the White House said in a statement detailing Biden’s call with Polis, the state governor, on Friday morning. Officials said on Friday that winds had died down and snow was arriving, and that they did not expect the fire to pose any more danger. The fire burned 24.3 square kilometres (9.4 square miles), Pelle said. By first light on Friday, the towering flames that lit up the night sky were gone, leaving smouldering homes and charred trees and fields. ![]() “We actually had deputy sheriffs and firefighters in areas that had to pull out because they just got overrun.” Structures burn as a wind-driven wildfire forced the evacuation of the Superior suburb of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday “This is the kind of fire we can’t fight head-on,” Pelle said. Pelle, who gave the early damage estimate, said there could be more injuries – and also deaths – because of the ferocity of the fire, propelled by winds up to 169km per hour (105 miles per hour) The origin of the wildfires has not been confirmed, but officials said during Friday’s press briefing that it was suspected to be related to power lines. The two towns – located in an area between Denver and Boulder – are filled with middle- and upper-middle-class subdivisions, as well as shopping centres, parks and schools. Two of the communities hit hardest by the fires, Louisville and Superior, have been placed under boil-water advisories due to contamination fears, Pelle added. “It’s unbelievable when you look at the devastation that we don’t have a list of 100 missing persons,” Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said on Friday. ![]() The wildfires injured at least a half dozen people and prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in and around two towns east of the Rocky Mountains near Denver, the state capital, on Thursday.
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