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		</div><p>More than 100 people had to spend the night on a motorway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain in an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado, authorities said.</p>
<p>The people were caught with their vehicles on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon on Thursday night.</p>
<p>Those in the tunnel were stuck for about nine hours until crews could carve out a path through the mud to reach them at about 6.30am local time on Friday, Garfield County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Walt Stowe said.</p>
<p>The tunnel serves as a 24-hour operations centre for the Colorado Department of Transportation, so it is relatively well-lit and has telephones, Mr Stowe said.</p>
<p>No injuries were reported.</p>
<p>The transportation department has accounted for 108 people, including 29 in the tunnel, who were stuck on the motorway overnight.</p>
<p>Glenwood Canyon has cliffs towering up to 2,000ft above the Colorado River, making it prone to rockslides and mudslides.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, rain over the area burned by a wildfire last summer has triggered frequent slides, resulting in closures of I-70, Colorado’s main east-west motorway.</p>
<p>Those closures have mostly occurred before the storm moves in, to prevent people from being trapped.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the canyon had temporarily closed earlier in the day as one storm cell approached but had reopened by the time a second storm cell moved in, which led to the vehicles and their passengers getting trapped, Mr Stowe said.</p>
<p>Transportation officials say the section of interstate is expected to be closed through the weekend because of the significant clean-up under way and because of heavy rain in the forecast.</p>
<p>“Because the National Weather Service has placed this area back under a Flash Flood Watch, there is a limited window of time to move all abandoned vehicles to safety,” the transportation department said in a news release.</p>
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