aerial tour of the damage right now. these are live pictures. we are expecting an update from him and local officials in a briefing in the next hour. cnn s natasha chen is standing by in boulder with the breaking details. when we say this came out of nowhere, people really didn t have notice to evacuate, did they? the scenes that we have observed from people taking cell phone video and those really frightening moments show that they were running from debris and ash raining down on them. once they got in their cars it was difficult to see anything at all. we re talking about hazy, orange skies. really making it difficult for them to see where they were going a frightening situation. right now we re in the town of superior. it s just outside of boulder. we also visited the town of louisville where neighborhoods were burned out. across the city, hot spots are still gone on. here are a couple residents talking about the very frightening experience of leavingi itheir homes. kn
gusts making it nearly impossible for fire crews to fight the flames. as the fire moved so quickly, the length of a football field gone in seconds. at least six people are injured and officials saying the fire likely started after the raging wind gusts brought down power lines. i want to go right to emily ekada standing by for us in lewisville, colorado. emily, talk us through what you ve been seeing as you ve been there. reporter: yasmin, i will say it s hard to put into words the degree of devastation we re seeing in these neighborhoods. as you mentioned we just came from one in louisville, the homes reduced to rubble, we re seeing charged out vehicles, trees, and then small hot spots scattered about. it really is quite apocalyptic looking and the sun is still not even up yet. you will expect we will get to understand the gravity of the damage even more so once the sunrises here. because of the hazardous material and continued recovery missions that is why we are on the m
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?