Up to 1,000 homes have been destroyed and thousands of residents have left their homes as massive wildfires sweep through Colorado.
At least 580 homes and have been burned down and 30,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires damaged neighborhoods Friday morning, Fox News reports. Six people were sent to hospitals as a result of the fires. Winds were reportedly blowing at 105 miles per hour.
“The end won’t come until the wind subsides,” Joe Pelle, the Boulder County sheriff, said, per Fox News. “This is the kind of fire you can’t fight head-on. We actually had deputy sheriffs and firefighters in areas that had to pull out because they just got overrun.”
The fires hit residents in Colorado’s front range between Denver and Boulder. Officials say the fires as “twice as destructive as the Black Forest Fire” that struck the state 10 years ago.
The fires are reportedly started from downed power lines, and dry conditions and powerful winds helped spread the fires, The New York Post reports. They reportedly covered over 1,600 acres.
