Two people were still missing after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado, prompting thousands of evacuations and destroying nearly 1,000 homes, authorities said on Sunday.
Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said at a press briefing on Sunday that one person who had been reported as missing on Saturday was accounted for and was not harmed.
Officials initially said there were no reports of fatalities following the rare urban wildfire that erupted on Thursday afternoon on the northern outskirts of the Denver metropolitan area.Pelle has declined to provide many details about the investigation into how the fire started. However, he did say that investigators have determined the fire started near the intersection of a state highway and another road in south Boulder.
Pelle confirmed Saturday that officers served a search warrant related to the investigation but provided no more details. In about two hours, the fire had scorched over 6,000 acres, officials said, with the fire at times moving a football field length in seconds.
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