RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP SAYS IT TORCHED VAIL BUILDINGS FIRES `A WARNING,' SAYS EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.(Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: October 22, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Vaughan and Joe Garner Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers Staff writer Dick Foster contributed to this story.

VAIL -- A radical environmental group claimed Wednesday that it torched buildings and ski lift houses atop Vail Mountain to protest the ski area's expansion, calling the fires ``just a warning.''

State and federal investigators pored over the communique from a group calling itself the Earth Liberation Front after it claimed to have ignited seven blazes that caused an estimated $12 million in damage.

``We have no idea if it's credible,'' said Kim ...

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