BOULDER, Colo. — David Myers was among about 3,500 people who desperately fled the fire after it erupted in a tinder-dry canyon northwest of Boulder on Monday and swallowed up dozens of homes. Residents packed everything they could into their cars and sped down narrow, winding roads to safety, encountering a vicious firestorm that melted the bumper of one couple’s van....
Am I supposed to believe it would melt steel-framed skyscrapers, too?
Governor Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency yesterday as officials nearly doubled the fire’s estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north.
Authorities investigated reports that the fire started when a car crashed into a propane tank.
Isn't that the Times Square bumbler, 'er, bomber?
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