Boulder Four Mile Canyon Fire Out of Control: Highway 19 Closed, Ash Reported in Boulder
Four Mile Canyon Wildfire Closes Highway 19 between Nederland and Boulder
Update: Fourmile Canyon Fire: Boulder County Posts Addresses of 139 Homes Destroyed by Fire
Update: Fourmile Canyon fire over 7,000 acres, 0% contained
Update: Four Mile Canyon Wildfire spreads to 3500 acres with three thousand homes evacuated.
A fast moving wildfire that began at 10:am at 4-Mile Canyon Road near Emerson Gulch west of Boulder, driven by high winds, has closed Highway 19, on both sides between Boulder and Nederland with the wildfire headed northeast. Also reported, ash falling in Boulder. The fire has reportedly already burned several structures and a fire truck that responded to the fire. Responding to fire, an air tanker with residents within a 4 mile radius asked to evacuate their homes.
More info on the location of Four Mile Canyon:
The Boulder, CO Fourmile Canyon, at 40°03?44?N 105°17?26?W? / ?40.06222°N 105.29056°W? / 40.06222; -105.29056, runs from near the mouth of Boulder Canyon up to the abandoned mining community of Wall Street, CO. It was host to the first narrow-gauge railroad to connect the main standard-gauge network (of the Union Pacific) to the mines and mountain communities near Ward, CO, and was the entryway to the Switzerland Trail tourist route that wound through the mountains between Nederland, CO and Ward. The Fourmile narrow gauge track was active from about the 1860s through the early 1900s.
Update: September 9, 8:06 PM EST, Boulder Wildfire: City of Boulder Preparing For Worse Case Scenario After Red Flag Warning
As someone who has been a long-time resident of western Colorado during the devastating drought who has had to evacuate due to a nearby fast moving wildfire, sheriff deputies warned us we had 10 minutes to collect what we could and get out of the area. Ten minutes to gather up our horses, pets, and belongings. According to 9 News, an evacuation centers have been set up at the North Boulder Recreation Center, the Nederland Community Center, and the Boulder County Fairgrounds for “large animals”.
On July 6, 1994, the Western Slope suffered a devastating wildfire which took the lives of 12 Bureau of Land Management elite firefighters. The fire, dubbed the South Canyon Fire Disaster, began three days earlier at the base of Storm King Mountain in South Canyon located near Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
On the afternoon of July 6, the South Canyon fire spotted back across the drain and beneath the firefighters, moving onto steep slopes and into dense, highly flammable Gambel oak. Within seconds, a wall of flame raced up the hill toward the firefighters on the west flank fireline.
Failing to outrun the flames, 12 firefighters perished. Two helitack crew members on top of the ridge also died when they tried to outrun the fire to the northwest. The remaining 35 firefighters survived by escaping out the east drainage or by seeking a safety area and deploying their fire shelters.
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BTW why does no one know that there is a town between boulder and nederland, with roughly 100ish or so people who live and/or work up there, most of them are losing their homes and businesses, some of which have been there and in service since the 1800′s, to include the last operational 1 room school house in the country!!!
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LBG1 Reply:
September 6th, 2010 at 19:02
Kara:
Thanks for the info. As a resident over on the western slope, I’m not familiar with the Four Mile Canyon area or how many residents live there.
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