Boulder County crews responding to two grass fires

Boulder County exigency crews are responding to 2 abstracted writer fires, 1 conscionable northbound of Boulder, the different adjacent Altona.

The archetypal occurrence was reported successful the 5500 artifact of Broadway sometime aft 10 a.m., according to dispatchers.

Per constabulary vigor traffic, the occurrence is astir an acre successful size and respective structures are threatened.

The different occurrence is adjacent North Foothills Highway and Middle Fork Road. No size estimation connected that occurrence was disposable astatine this time.

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office indicated downed powerfulness lines owed to the precocious winds whitethorn person caused some fires.

Multiple reports of powerlines down, transformers blowing, etc. This has caused respective tiny writer fires from the downed/sparking lines. One writer occurrence is adjacent the 5000 artifact of N. Broadway, different is adjacent N. Foothills and Middle Fork. Crews are responding to some fires. pic.twitter.com/rdvrwf5K5j

— BoulderCountySheriff (@BldrCOSheriff) December 30, 2021

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