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Some in Colo. didn’t get fire warning

Some residents in the path of a Colorado wildfire weren’t warned to flee because of a problem in an automated call system that relayed a mandatory evacuation order, authorities said Thursday. About 12 percent of the people who should have received the calls on Monday did not, Jefferson County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said. The culprit was probably a software glitch, she added.

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