Starting at 5 a.m. Friday, Xcel Energy said it would turn off power for about 69,000 customers as part of planned power outages to reduce wildfire risk amid strong winds. The first planned outage was Wednesday, impacting about 50,000 customers.
Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld counties are impacted in Fridays shutoffs.
Boulder County’s Office of Disaster Management encouraged people to stay home and off the roads Friday because of the dangerously high winds…