US Colorado wildfire life threatening

Hundreds of homes are feared lost in fast-moving wildfires in the US state of Colorado, officials said Thursday, as flames tore through areas desiccated by a historic drought.
 While approximately 370 homes in the Sagamore subdivision have been lost reportedly, there's a potential of 210 homes lost in Old Town Superior. In addition to this, the Target shopping complex in Superior is on fire; the Element Hotel in Superior is fully engulfed and due to the magnitude and intensity of this fire and its presence in such a heavily populated area, there may be injuries or fatalities.
 Thousands of people have been told to flee the fast-moving fire, which is thought to have begun when power lines were toppled by gusting winds. 
Although fires are a natural part of the climate cycle, and help to clear dead brush and reduce disease in vegetation, their scale and intensity is increasing.
The Investigators are now looking into the cause of the wildfire and are focusing on a property owned by a Christian fundamentalist sect, after witnesses reported seeing a structure on fire there moments before the blaze spread with astonishing speed across drought-stricken suburbs.
Twelve Tribes originated from a youth Bible study group in the 1970s in Chattanooga, Tenn. Since then, it has grown into an international network of self-governing communities scattered across North and South America, Europe and Australia. The settlement in Boulder is one of two in Colorado.
Authorities are still searching for two people missing in the blaze, which figured among the most destructive in Colorado history. A severe multiyear drought nurtured the brittle-dry conditions that allowed the fire to sweep through residential areas.
The efforts to determine what caused the fire are adding to the challenges that authorities are facing in Colorado, after heavy snowfall over the weekend.