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A second wildfire broke out in Boulder County on Sunday, forcing new evacuations in and around Ward.

The Lefthand Canyon fire burned at least 303 acres after starting near the 14000 block of Lefthand Canyon Drive Sunday.

Homes in Ward, north of Ward and the Gold Hill area and in Sunshine Canyon were ordered to evacuate Sunday.

The evacuation point for the Lefthand Canyon fire is the Nederland Community Center located at 750 CO-72.

Livestock can be housed at the Gilpin County Fairground at 230 Norton Drive in Black Hawk.

About 145 residences must evacuate, according to the Boulder Office of Emergency Management. Evacuation alerts were erroneously sent to some residents in some areas that are not close to the fire, including in Longmont and Louisville, the office said. Those not in the immediate vicinity of the fire do not need to evacuate.

“We use [the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] to send out alerts because phone lines go down and power outages occur,” the office said in a statement. “We apologize for any confusion or panic that the alerts caused. We are doing our best to get out information to as many people as possible but unfortunately the system didn’t work perfectly.”

The office later clarified in a statement that some third-party alert systems, like Amazon Alexa, sent out notifications to all of Boulder County, instead of just the evacuation areas, because of an issue in the code.

Road closures in the area include:

• Lefthand Canyon Drive (Nelson St.) at Peak to Peak Highway
• Old Depot Road at Peak to Peak Highway
• Humboldt St. at Peak to Peak Highway
• Lefthand Canyon Drive at Sawmill Road
• CR 100 at Peak to Peak Highway
• Gold Lake Road at Peak to Peak Highway

The fire was reported shortly before 1 p.m. and was “pushing uphill” because of heavy winds, The Daily Camera reported.

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