Fire managers confident Colo wildfire won't spread

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — Fire teams battling a destructive wildfire near Boulder are growing increasingly confident that they have been able to stop it from spreading so that some 1,000 evacuees can soon return to their homes — or what remains of them.

But authorities warned that much of the area is dangerous because of downed power lines and poles, damaged roads and exposed mine shafts. Still, utility workers were restoring electricity to homes where about 2,000 residents have been allowed to return in the rugged foothills above Boulder.

Firefighter Steve Reece spent Saturday day digging out grass and cutting through roots with a tool that is part shovel, part hoe and part ax …