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[bluescreen73]

FWIW, the Boulder County Sheriff acknowledged that property owned by the Twelve Tribes "religious organization" is part of the Marshall Fire investigation. Nobody has been charged yet, and it could be quite some time before the cause is determined.

https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/sta...21653867450368

[suzco]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

FWIW, the Boulder County Sheriff acknowledged that property owned by the Twelve Tribes "religious organization" is part of the Marshall Fire investigation. Nobody has been charged yet, and it could be quite some time before the cause is determined.

https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/sta...21653867450368

Here's an article that goes into some detail (it's in quite a few publications - I linked this particular one because there's no paywall).

Boulder County investigators narrow Marshall fire’s origin to single neighborhood
Focus turns to area off Colorado 93 and Marshall Road where video shows burning shed on religious sect’s property

If you read through the entire article (and it's a long one), there's a sad, ironic twist at the end for one individual.

[Vision67]

Boulder County investigators narrow Marshall fire’s origin to single neighborhood

Focus turns to area off Colorado 93 and Marshall Road where video shows burning shed on religious sect’s property

https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/01/...twelve-tribes/

"Investigators narrowed the point of origin of the most destructive wildfire in state history to a neighborhood off Colorado 93 and Marshall Road near where a passer-by captured video of a burning shed the morning the fire started, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said Sunday.

“The fire originated somewhere in that neighborhood,” he said during a news briefing on Marshall fire recovery efforts. “There was a viral video that was posted of a shed on fire. We don’t know that that shed started the fire or whether it was secondary.”

"A man who lives near the intersection where the Marshall fire is believed to have ignited, Mike Zoltowski, said Sunday he believes he witnessed the start of the wildfire on the property next door to him — a pack of houses and land occupied by members of The Twelve Tribes, a Christian religious sect."

"Twelve Tribes previously has been investigated for child labor law violations in New York, and, in 2019, a former sect member told the CU Independent, the University of Colorado Boulder’s student news publication, that he was beaten as a child when he belonged to the group."

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by hikernut

Looks like it might be a mapping error. Those two structures have addresses (numbers 1192 and 1221) on Marshall Drive, not Marshall Road. The only Marshall Drive I see is a short neighborhood street near the affected Target/Costco shopping center.

Google maps shows an "1192" address with a driveway onto Marshall Drive, but gives the address as "1192 Red Ash Ln". Red Ash Ln is the next street to the east. At any rate, something is amiss with Google maps.

That weird. I'm seeing them listed as 1221 and 1192 Marshall Dr, not Red Ash Lane.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

FWIW, the Boulder County Sheriff acknowledged that property owned by the Twelve Tribes "religious organization" is part of the Marshall Fire investigation. Nobody has been charged yet, and it could be quite some time before the cause is determined.

https://twitter.com/jeremyjojola/sta...21653867450368

The the fire starting at the religious cult compound is a weird twist.

[Vision67]

Colorado Wildfire Inquiry Focuses on Christian Sect

Investigators are looking at the possibility that a fire that destroyed more than 900 homes started on property owned by a fundamentalist Christian sect known as Twelve Tribes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/u...rado-fire.html

"Investigators looking into the cause of a colossal wildfire in Colorado that forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people 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.

Sheriff Joe Pelle of Boulder County said at a news briefing on Monday that the property owned by Twelve Tribes, which was founded in Tennessee in the 1970s, had become a target of the probe after investigators ruled out the possibility that downed power lines might have sparked the fire."

[Cloudy Dayz]

The Yellow Deli in Boulder

908 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302
(303) 996-4700

Due to being displaced by the Marshall Fire, we are temporarily closed, but hope to re-open SOON!

Stay tuned for our opening schedule!

The Yellow Deli in Boulder

Umm.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

The Yellow Deli in Boulder

Umm.

Yeah the Yellow Deli chain is tied to Twelve Tribes. If you go there you're essentially funding a cult.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Nothing new, but this is one of the best videos I have seen of the fire yet. These guys were right in the middle of it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N9F46oS2Pc

[hikernut]

An update on the search for missing people (Marshall fire)...

https://www.cpr.org/2022/01/05/autho...marshall-fire/