Eye On Boise

Boise neighborhood burns under red sunset

Posted by Betsy

Aug. 25, 2008 7:42 p.m. • 0 comments

At least half a dozen Boise homes are burning tonight, under a bloody-red sunset that followed a super-strong windstorm late this afternoon. The burning homes are in the Sweetwater area in southeast Boise; some residents there said they heard a bang, then a field went up, then fire raced up the rim and houses started burning like they were full of gas.

They’re visible from all over town; these shots, one of the fires and the other of the sunset the opposite direction, were taken from the North Boise foothills. Though the area is accustomed to grass fires burning on the dry hills at the edge of town and sometimes destroying an outlying home, it’s rare for a fire to rip through a neighborhood in the city like this. Thus far, no injuries have been reported, but burning houses are visible fully engulfed and collapsing. Some areas have been evacuated.