{"id":42868,"date":"2022-01-05T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/biden-will-tour-boulder-county-fire-damage-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:10:12","slug":"biden-will-tour-boulder-county-fire-damage-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/biden-will-tour-boulder-county-fire-damage-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden will tour Boulder County fire damage on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An aerial photo of a Boulder County neighborhood taken during a Colorado National Guard flyover with Gov. Jared Polis on Dec. 31. (Hart Van Denburg\/Colorado Public Radio via AP, Pool)<\/span>Hart Van Denburg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden will travel to Colorado on Friday to tour the damage caused by last week\u2019s wildfire in Boulder County.<\/p>\n

The visit was announced Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat, who said he and Gov. Jared Polis will accompany Biden during the visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m deeply grateful to President Biden and his administration for authorizing a swift disaster declaration this past weekend to begin the flow of federal funds to our community, and I look forward to hosting him on the ground on Friday to share firsthand the powerful stories of Boulder County\u2019s resilience and strength,\u201d Neguse said in a written statement.<\/p>\n

Polis said he plans to convey to Biden the short-, medium- and long-term needs of those affected by the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will valuable for him to see some of the impact first hand,\u201d the governor said at a news conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Marshall fire destroyed 991 homes and businesses and damaged about 125 more structures when it swept through Superior and Louisville on Thursday. Two people remain missing.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/div>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The visit was announced by Rep. Joe Neguse, who said he and governor will accompany president during the visit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85483,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions\/85483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}