The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deployed its national response team to Nederland Friday in the wake of the fire that destroyed a shopping center along the town’s main street.
The Caribou Village Shopping Center, home to an estimated 20 businesses in the small mountain town, was decimated by a structure fire that began at about 3:41 a.m. Thursday morning, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The fire prompted an evacuation order issued for residents and businesses in the south and east portions of the town that lasted about five hours.
No injuries were reported in the incident but officials did not note a potential cause for the fire in the release.
In a social media announcement Friday, the ATF said that the national response team deploys to investigate “major fires, explosions and bombings alongside local partners.”…