Two people are unaccounted for out of some 35,000 forced from their homes last week when a late-season wildfire tore through two Denver suburbs. Disaster experts say several factors, like the fire beginning in daylight, favored the evacuees.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said the fire that destroyed almost 1,000 homes and damaged hundreds more stands as a warning: “When you get a pre-evac or evacuation notice, hop to it.”
“I’ve talked to dozens of people, even those whose houses burned down, and nobody seems to have received any kind of notification,” he said. “We were fortunate enough it happened in the daytime, you know. You could see the plume getting worse and worse,” he said. “At night this would have been deadly with this lack of communication.”
That avoided a scenario in which anxious parents scrambled to find their children rather than flee immediately, said Lori Peek, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Sharpening that awareness of danger is a growing understanding that climate change is making wildfires worse even as subdivisions creep deeper into fire-prone areas.
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