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U.S. NEWS Monday 28 March 2022
NYC planning to remove homeless encampments from streets

(AP) — New York City of- house made out of card-
ficials are planning to re- board on the streets. That’s
move makeshift shelters inhumane.”
set up by homeless people In its most recent estimate
on city streets, mirroring in January 2021, the city
similar efforts in other lib- said about 1,100 people
eral metropolises that had were living in parks and
previously tolerated the en- on the streets — a number
campments. seen by many advocates
Mayor Eric Adams dis- as an undercount. Most of
closed the initiative in an the roughly 50,000 home-
interview with The New York less people in the city stay
Times on Friday, but provid- in shelters.
ed few details. It comes a People who are homeless
month after he announced and their advocates have
a push to remove home- said removing street en-
less people from the city’s campments only results in
sprawling subway system people moving from one
in response to assaults and spot to another.
other aggressive behavior. An increasing number of
“We’re going to rid the cities across the coun-
encampments off our try including Los Angeles,
street and we’re going to district by district, identify Adams did not say where gin within two weeks. San Francisco, Seattle and
place people in healthy where the encampments people living in the en- “We can’t stop an indi- Washington, D.C., have
living conditions with wrap- are, then execute a plan to campments would go, and vidual from sleeping on the been removing encamp-
around services,” he told give services to the people acknowledged officials street based on law, and ments and taking other
the Times. “I’m telling my who are in the encamp- cannot force anyone to go we’re not going to violate steps to address homeless-
city agencies to do an ments, then to dismantle to a homeless shelter. He that law,” he said. “But ness that would have been
analysis block by block, those encampments.” expected the effort to be- you can’t build a miniature unheard of years ago.q

Officials lift most evacuation orders on Colorado wildfire

(AP) — A wildfire south of stroyed about 1,100 homes.
Boulder that forced nearly Fire crews are concerned
20,000 people to flee was about the upcoming fire
listed at 21% contained season, Smith said.
and most evacuations “I think this is just a sign of
had been lifted by Sunday the way things are going to
morning, officials with Boul- go,” he said.
der Fire-Rescue said. “We continue to work on
The fire, which ignited Sat- our planning processes. We
urday, burned to within continue to work on the
1,000 yards (914 meters) of team building and work
homes on the west end of with our partners to make
Boulder, said Mike Smith, in- sure that we’re as dialed as
cident commander. we can be. We’re feeling
A quick initial attack “com- good, but we’re a little ner-
bined with all of the fuels vous about the upcoming
mitigation treatments that season.”
we’ve done in this area Saturday’s fire started
is one of the reasons that around 2 p.m. and burned
we’ve had such great suc- protected wildland near
cess,” Smith said Sunday. the National Center for At-
Fire crews were also able to mospheric Research, Boul-
use aircraft to fight the fire, der police said. Authorities
laying down lines of fire re- have called it the NCAR
tardant near homes in the fire and its cause is not yet
rolling hills south of the col- known, although officials
lege town, he said. have found the spot where
The evacuation area was fire line and making sure late December fire, pushed over 9 square miles (24 it was believed to have
reduced late Saturday to the fire doesn’t burn to- by strong winds, burned square kilometers) and de- started, Smith said.q
cover about 1,700 people ward the city of Boulder
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from about 8,000 homes Canyon, Smith said. Crews
earlier in the day. Fire man- were working to corral the
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Sunday as it becomes safe, The fire burned an estimat-
officials said. ed 200 acres (81 hectares)
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