In the West, a seasonal pause of wildfires is gone.
Nearly 20.000 people fleeing a wildfire in northern Colorado resumed home on Monday after firefighters were able to halt the spread of the fire outbreak, which erupted Saturday in the gently rolling hills below Boulder and burned to within 77 feet of homes at the western end of the college town, near the area where a blaze that was sparked by high winds on about 190 acres late December destroyed more than 1.000 homes.
The fire broke out in an area that was devastated by a blaze that burned 1.000 homes this past year in unincorporated Boulder County and in the suburbs of Superior and Louisville, but Superior City officials emailed residents and said there was no immediate concern for the community.
Wind this time didn’t stop planes being used and they could lay fire retardant lines near homes.
Brian Oliver, a deployment spokesman who works on the recent fire in the Boulder area, was giving a media briefing on Monday.
Throughout much of Texas, conditions were red under an alert Monday as the weather deteriorated.
As the crews begin to create more containment they will work indoors to prevent burning embers entering the wind.
In Texas, firefighters battled multiple wildfires, the most extensive burned 220 square miles and was 90% contained.
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