My house is no longer a hole in the ground. Now there are foundation walls in the hole and the builder is contacting the well and septic and electrical people to start putting the connections in place. #MarshallFire #Rebuilding

#MarshallFire #wildfires #chemicals "Potentially harmful chemicals generated by the Marshall Fire in late 2021 may have lingered inside some Boulder County homes for weeks after the disaster—hiding in small particles of dust that residents could have mixed back into the air when they vacuumed carpets or turned on fans, according to recent research. " https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/07/06/weeks-later-potentially-harmful-chemicals-lingered-homes-affected-marshall-fire?utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_content=potentially_harmful_chemicals_lingered_in_homes_marshall_fire_07132023&utm_term=

Link to #MarshallFire investigative summary from Boulder County Sheriff's Office: https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/marshall-fire-investigative-summary.pdf

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Update on the #MarshallFire report: Boulder County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) will publish the report on their website later today. I will share the link when it becomes available.

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*Full disclosure: I work p/t for BCSO in Fire Management but had absolutely no role in this investigation or report, nor am I privy no any information beyond what is released to the public

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This report had been a long time in coming. I'll try to find a link to the primary source, which was the Boulder County sheriff's office announcement this morning.

https://www.cpr.org/2023/06/08/marshall-fire-announcement-boulder/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=alert20230608

@ai6yr after the #MarshallFire here in Boulder county, I think I had the entire town building C-R box filters. I even gave a few away.

Homes still inhabitable in #Boulder #Colorado due to the #MarshallFire https://coloradosun.com/2023/04/19/marshall-fire-smoke-ash-home-uninhabitable/

Marshall fire victims protested green building codes as too expensive. Now a majority are voluntarily adopting them.
Most people so far approved to rebuild in Louisville and Superior are choosing more energy efficient homes (they’re still uninderinsured, but stretching budgets for more energy-efficient, comfortable homes)

#MarshallFire #louisvilleco

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/02/28/marshall-fire-green-building-construction-rebates-climate-change/

Good news: the cities did the best they could and went beyond.

The bad news: carcinogens were still present in Superior/Louisville’s water after they turned the water back on and lifted boil order. #MarshallFire #Boulder #SuperiorCo #LouisvilleCo

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2023/02/01/new-study-confirms-marshall-fire-contaminated-drinking-water-but-the-response-prevented-a-crisis/

A year ago, a fast-moving grass fire burned 6,000 acres and destroyed 1,000+ homes in Boulder County. It was the costliest wildfire in Colorado history, and affected many of us personally as well as our whole community. #MarshallFire

Many CU researchers pivoted to explore the science behind what happened; the widespread impacts on people and the environment; and how we can mitigate future catastrophes in a changing climate.

Read a review of current research at https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/12/21/ongoing-cu-research-explores-impacts-solutions-after-marshall-fire

A look back at the year after the #marshallfire. Lots of rebuilding going on out there, so amazing to just see it all moving forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk3i92SLtLQ

Thinking of my neighbors and everyone else coping with loss today. It's been a year now and a new normal still feels far away. #MarshallFire #Colorado #Louisville #Boulder #Superior

@bud_t #MarshallFire #FireTwitter #FireTwitterExpats

@smorford Thank you for the article on further consequences of the #MarshallFire , an ongoing tragedy for Louisville and Superior Colorado. I lived in Louisville for a decade in the late 1990s and early 2000s in a house right down the hill from the photo in the post and in the article; the whole neighborhood burned to the ground in the fire. We walked our dogs and jogged with our son along the bike path, in the picture on the right, up to Harper Lake.

Today's the one-year anniversary of the #MarshallFire in #Colorado... and as one of the survivors I can tell you I'm STRUGGLING to process a flood of traumatic memories of that terrible event today. (And I was one of the "lucky" ones who *didn't* lose my home -- it's going to be a thousand times worse for those who did.)

So if you happen to know anybody who lives in (or lived in) the areas affected by that disaster, please be gentle with them today. There's no way to sugar-coat how brutal it's going to be to "re-live" that day in our minds as the anniversary slowly crawls by.

A year ago versus a couple days ago. The #marshallfire took a lot away, but we’re still rebuilding and moving forward.

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the #MarshallFire, the biggest wildfire in Colorado history, which burned a thousand homes in Louisville, our little town, and our neighbor Superior, both of which are just over the hill from Boulder (where the university is). I’ve never felt such a genuine fear of being in harm’s way as stepping out onto our driveway and watching 115 mph whip ash and debris around our suburban street. “We have to go, *right now*,” I remember saying to my partner.

Colorado wildfires grow more unpredictable as officials ignore warnings

“To me, it’s unconscionable to have people rebuilding in an unsafe manner”

http://ow.ly/F7Tc50McARk

#NewsCOneeds #NoPaywallHere #Wildfire #MarshallFire

Memorials planned in honor of the more than 1,000 animals lost in the #marshallfire, on Dec. 30, 2021. 🕯️

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/21/marshall-fire-pets-killed-dogs-cats/ #boulder #colorado

Memorials planned in honor of the more than 1,000 animals lost in the #marshallfire on Dec. 30, 2021. 🕯️

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/21/marshall-fire-pets-killed-dogs-cats/ #boulder #colorado