Video shows panic breaking out inside a Chuck E. Cheese packed with kids as fire raced toward the building.
DENVER -- A vicious wildfire that began Thursday morning in Boulder County, Colorado, swallowed about 1,600 acres in a matter of hours, burning hundreds of homes and prompting orders for some 30,000 people in two communities to evacuate.
About 15,000 customers had no power early Friday in Colorado, most of them in Boulder County. At least six people were treated for injuries related to one of the fires, a UCHealth spokesperson told CNN on Thursday. A law enforcement officer suffered a minor eye injury from blowing debris. Across the fire zone, roads were blocked by smoke and traffic gridlock as people tried to make their way out.
From an ICU room at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, white smoke clouded a charcoal sky just across the parking lot and a street, video from Kara Plese shows. The hospital was fully evacuated and patients transferred or discharged, officials there said. Good Samaritan Medical Center in nearby Lafayette also began transferring some of its most critical and fragile patients, according to a news release.
Wind gusts Thursday -- some surpassing 100 mph in Jefferson and Boulder counties -- pushed the blaze"down a football field in a matter of seconds," Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said.
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