Two campers have been arrested for allegedly starting a wildfire that destroyed three homes and three buildings in Boulder County, Colorado.
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Authorities say Jimmy Andrew Suggs and Zackary Ryan Kuykendall, both from Alabama, face felony arson charges because of the dangers the fire poses.
Fire officials said Tuesday afternoon they have found three more homes that were destroyed in the Cold Springs fire near Nederland, bringing the total to eight.
While several people from the department’s command staff, he added, have gone to work at the command level of the Cold Springs fire in addition to the four firefighters and wildland fire vehicle.
Over 2,000 people living southwest of Boulder have been evacuated.
Fire managers say it was started by a lightning strike in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness on Friday but crews weren’t able to pinpoint its location over the weekend. The felony charge is because lives were endangered as a result of the fire.
Authorities are warning that shifting high winds and high temperatures on Sunday could put more homes in danger.
The Spring Gulch Fire burned 11 acres in the Pike National Forest, three miles south of Deckers, in Douglas County, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
The pair and a woman camping with them told the Daily Camera newspaper of Boulder (http://tinyurl.com/j85uft9) that they saw the fire soon after it started.
It is zero percent contained.
‘We went outside and looked and saw an inferno in the sky, ‘ Kennedy said.
Two Alabama men have been arrested in Colorado in connection with a wildfire spreading across the state.
A reverse emergency notification message was sent to 67 individuals in the Sugarloaf area that the mandatory evacuation order had been lifted.
The Hayden Pass Fire more than doubled in size to about 19 square miles on Monday and hasn’t been contained at all.
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Officials say a crash that killed two federal firefighters and injured a third involved a firefighting truck that rolled over on a remote Nevada highway. According to the Incident Information System officials note that, “predictions of fire growth indicate the potential for significant structure and infrastructure loss”.
