Maxwell Fire Info Sources - Boulder, CO

The Boulder County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has been activated in response to a fire in Lefthand Canyon being referred to as the Maxwell Fire.  Response information - including evacuation and shelter information - is being posted on Boulder's Office of Emergency Management Emergency Information Page at http://boulderoem.com/emergency-status.  Boulder OEM is also providing information via their Twitter feed (@boulderoem) at http://twitter.com/boulderoem, their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/BoulderOEM and via Boulder County's Twitter feed (@bouldercounty) at http://twitter.com/bouldercounty or Boulder Police's Twitter feed (@boulderpolice) at http://twitter.com/boulderpolice.

Fire Fight/Suppression information for the Maxwell Fire is being by the U.S. Forest Service Incident Command on Inciweb at http://inciweb.org/incident/2384/. Recorded fire information is being made available by incident command at (970) 498-1030.

An evacuation center was established by the Red Cross at the YMCA at 28th and Mapleton in Boulder.  Red Cross Shelter information is being posted at http://twitter.com/redcrossdenver, although as of 9:30 pm on June 26, all shelters are closed.

The Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center (@rmaccfireinfo) is also posting fire-related information at http://twitter.com/rmaccfireinfo as is the Arapahoe National Forest at http://twitter.com/usfsarp.

Boulder County also maintains a txt/email alert system - register for alerts online at https://ww2.everbridge.net/citizen/EverbridgeGateway.action?body=home&gis_alias_id=160781.

There are two hashtags currently being used on Twitter for fire-related information:  #maxwellfire and #boulderfire.  Search for fire info using the hashtags at http://search.twitter.com