CO - Boulder County, Multiple grass/wildfires burning, towns evacuated, 30 Dec 2021

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Colorado Wildfire Inquiry Focuses on Christian Sect


Colorado Wildfire Inquiry Focuses on Christian Sect
Investigators are looking at the possibility that a fire that destroyed more than 900 homes started on property owned by a fundamentalist Christian sect known as Twelve Tribes.

 

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Is religious group founded in Chattanooga under suspicion for Colorado wildfire? - WDEF

 

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"Colorado fires: Everything we know about Twelve Tribes ‘cult’ | The Independent" Everything we know about the ‘cult’ living where Colorado fires allegedly began

 

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Yikes... doesn't mean that this is what happens, but definitely concerning....

Fire crews had been called to Twelve Tribes property | 9news.com
Mountain View Fire and Rescue was called to the property on Dec. 24 for a reported trash or grass fire.

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — The property where investigators have spent the most time looking for answers in the Marshall Fire is also where firefighters were called six days earlier on a report of a trash or grass fire.

The Twelve Tribes property near Highway 93 and Highway 170 had been fenced off while investigators searched for a cause of the Marshall Fire. That property is no longer sealed off by investigators. There has not been a law enforcement update on the search for the cause of the Marshall Fire since last week.

Mountain View Fire and Rescue (MVFR) responded to a call to that property in the late morning on Dec. 24. A passerby reported a trash or grass fire. The person who made that call spoke with 9NEWS over the phone. They said they called the Boulder County non-emergency line at 11:50 a.m. on Dec. 24 to report open burning. They said their call lasted two minutes and 35 seconds.

"You're responding near South Foothills Highway, Eldorado Springs Drive on the east side, just north of the parking lot, on a wildland fire," a dispatcher said over the scanner at 11:54 a.m. on Dec. 24.

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