The blaze swept through an estimated 1,600 acres and destroyed more than 500 homes within hours.
Separately, the National Weather Service office in Boulder tweeted: "All Superior under an Evacuation ORDER. LEAVE NOW!"
Within hours, the blaze had swept an estimated 1,600 acres and destroyed more than 500 homes, Mr Pelle told reporters at a news briefing. He said an entire subdivision of 370 homes went up in flames west of Superior, and that 210 dwellings were lost in the Old Town area of Superior, along with additional residences in the area.Multiple buildings and vehicles were alight.Governor Jared Polis said flames were consuming football fields of landscape in a matter of seconds, calling the conflagration "a force of nature".
The sheriff said gale-force winds made it impossible to halt the fire's rapid advance, adding that fire and emergency personnel were "essentially running ahead of this just trying to get people out of the way. That's all you can do".Among them were about 30 patients, along with staff, from Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, which was shut down and fully evacuated as of the late afternoon, according to the medical network Centura Health.
Mr Polis declared a state of emergency allowing the use of disaster funding to support emergency response efforts in Boulder County and to allow mobilisation of theThe fire on the outskirts of the Denver metropolitan area, left bone dry from an extreme drought gripping eastern, follows several days of heavy snow in the Rocky Mountains to the west.
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