clint fulsome who is standing by having to deal with this over the last 24 hours or so mayor, how are you doing? good morning. i m doing okay. family is safe. i m actually in golden, colorado, right now just down the road from superior. we had to evacuate like everyone else and it s i did spend several hours yesterday in town with the sheriff s sergeant and our town manager driving around and assessing the situation, and it was a very scary and active scene and just tragic results. we are a small town, we re a four-square-mile town at the southeast corner of boulder county between boulder and denver, and, you knew, in a four-square-mile town you get to know your neighbors and you get to know a lot of people and it was just heartbreaking driving around and seeing how many
welcomed when you re talking about the drought situation as well as those fires. all right. jennifer gray, thank you so much for that. so to talk more about this are the mayors of the two hardest hit towns in the boulder area. we have clint fulsome, mayor of superior, colorado and ashley stolzman, mayor of louisville, colorado. i want to start with the devastating damage. first of all, to you, mayor fulsome. tell us about the destruction you re seeing. this could be the most destructive wildfire in colorado s history. that s right. thanks for having us on today. it s complete devastation. i was able to tour the area yesterday evening with the town manager and sheriff s sergeant and we just witnessed incredible devastation around the town. then also witnessed houses just
exploding right before our eyes. it was one of the most disturbing situations i have ever been in. can you tell me about how quickly you had to evacuate from your home, mayor? i know you had to run out pretty quickly. it was minutes of notice. i was actually out of town during the evacuation. my family rallied very quickly and, you know, just had minutes to get out. same stories all across town. people just had very little time to get out. usually in a situation like this, you have a little bit of time, a little bit of advanced warning, but these winds were just unprecedented. the dry conditions, it just all combined for a tragic situation. mayor stolzman, what are you seeing from your vantage point?
patients that are hospitalized. of course, the vast majority of them unvaccinated. joining me now is atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms whose last day in office is monday. it s a pleasure to have you on, and thanks so much for joining us on this new year s eve, mayor. first off, will you please tell us what s going on in the hospitals in atlanta and how they are coping during the surge. well, thank you for having me. what we are seeing is very troubling w.reseeing a record number of covid patients in our hospitals. our record high was 162 last january. we are now over 170 at grady hospital which is the largest trauma center in the southeastern united states, so we are seeing over 80% capacity in our hospitals. over 80% icu capacity, and particularly when it comes to grady hospital which is in the heart of downtown atlanta, when you have a major trauma center, you obviously have people coming
in with heart attacks and other issues, and at the point that we are having to divert ambulance service from grady hospital to other hospitals, and grady is normally our overflow hospital, then that should be a concern for all of us. wow. ambulances are being turned away at the grady trauma center. yeah, that is concerning. since this recent spike in cases, mayor, you reinstated the city s indoor mask mandate, and you just recently cancelled the new year s eve peach drop. it was a second year in a row that you have had to do this. what was behind your decision and why not have a scaleddown event like new york only outdoors with a vaccine and mask requirement? well, one of the challenges that we have in our state is really about the disagreement between my office as mayor and with the governor, so we don t