About 200 firefighters from 30 agencies attacked the blaze Saturday and about 110 are expected to continue fighting the fire Sunday, Smith said. Winds in the area were initially expected to be southwesterly but are now expected to blow west and northwest, he said, which could create the need for additional evacuations.
“We have a plan in place to create more evacuations; our hope is we do not have to do any of those,” Smith said. He said authorities hope to “get people back into their homes as quickly as we can.” The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Officials know the fire began in the northwest corner of the burn area, Smith said. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.Smith said firefighters were aided by previous fire mitigation work in the burn area, and said crews aim to “corral the fire up into the rocks and snow” on Sunday to ensure it doesn’t move further toward the city.
The NCAR fire began just three months after the Marshall fire, which started in Boulder County in late December and was driven east by hurricane-force winds, destroying more than 1,000 homes. Smith, who was also in charge of the firefighting response for the Marshall fire, said the two fires are “different animals.”
“One of the things we learned from the Marshall fire was how to rapidly escalate and integrate multiple agencies and get them to work together,” he said. “We had a much more seamless process on this one. We saw an improvement from Marshall, but it’s a little bit of apples and oranges.”
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