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Thousands of federal firefighters could face substantial pay cuts in the coming weeks, potentially hampering the country’s ability to respond to wildfires as they have grown more severe.

Community members and elected officials gathered on Thursday to celebrate safety improvements coming to Diagonal Highway while reflecting on the tragedies that have occurred on the highway over the years.

One of the most recent deaths on Colo. 119 between Boulder and Longmont was Magnus White, a Boulder resident and athlete with USA Cycling. In July, the 17-year-old was struck by a driver while biking southbound on the highway.

Over 2,000 people gathered at Temple Emanuel in Denver on Monday night to mourn the deaths of Israeli civilians over the weekend during a deadly attack by a militant group.

“These last three days have been incredibly difficult for all of us that have a love for Israel and a love for humanity. The barbaric, horrible attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has simply been devastating for us,” Scott Levin, the Mountain States regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, told the crowd.

Sheryl Buchman and Erica Solove, whose homes were destroyed in the Marshall Fire, both discovered they were underinsured as they started to rebuild in Superior’s Sagamore neighborhood.

But neither ended up applying for low-interest disaster loans from the Small Business Administration to help make up the difference, saying the process was too cumbersome at a time they were already overwhelmed.

“We just didn’t have it in us to fight another battle,” Solove said.

U.S. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark joined U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse in Superior on Friday to tour Marshall Fire rebuilding efforts with affected residents. 

The Dec. 30, 2021, wildfire was the most destructive in Colorado history. It destroyed more than 1,000 homes, burned over 6,000 acres, caused more than $2 billion in property damage and killed two people.