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Boulder County - from the Office of Emergency Management, partial media briefing summary.
Three confirmed fatalities have occurred in Boulder County.
Many communities in our western mountains are completely isolated, no water, no septic, no sewer, have our hands full…we lost every roadway leading to western end of our county
We have four helicopters in use, 3 large black hawk, using them to relay humanitarian aid to Jamestown and other communities, and to insert search/rescue and for medical evacuations; heavily dependent on air ops for a while due to road conditions. Restoration/recovery will be hampered by this.
We’ve made good progress in terms of evacuating Lyons – several hundred so far. High profile vehicles taking evacuees to HWY 66 then to evacuation center in Longmont. We’re documenting everyone who is evacuated. This operation will continue throughout today with as many as 2,500 people being transported out of this community. Lyons has lost sewer, water, and power.
We don’t yet know fully about homes and lives lost in canyons and mountain communities. This will go on for several days.
Type II Incident Management Team has arrived and we had a briefing around authority and responsibilities. We’ll meet with their management team this evening, then transition responsibility for op management of this event to them at 6:00 Sat. morning. They’ll continue to coordinate local responders in addition to bringing in more resources.
Waters are receding. People will now want to travel; we have forecast for flash flood warnings still. Progress by next week – little solace for people in the mountains who are waiting for help.

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