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Date: June 11, 2013 at 19:26:25
From: Skywise, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Colorado Wildfires |
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Several wildfires breaking out in Colorado.
One is near Canyon City and the Royal Gorge Bridge. One report that the bridge may be threatened.
Another is in Black Forest NE of Colorado Springs.
A few years back I had lived for a short while just on the outskirts of Black Forest so am quite familiar with the area. Lots of houses in there, many are horse properties. I'm afraid there's going to be a lot of houses gone.
Having lived there I am not surprised at all. In fact, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. The environment is ripe fire weather conditions all the time - low humidity, high winds. Anyone in the SoCal area knows what the Santa Ana winds are. In this area it was like that 75% of the year, but usually not with the hot. No joke, the wind rarely blew less than 5-10 mph. Calm days you could count on one hand.
Smoke plume shows very well on weather radar.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=pux&product=N0R&loop=yes
http://www.krdo.com/ has streaming video.
Brian
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Date: June 20, 2013 at 13:09:43
From: PJ/No CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Colorado Wildfires natural causes all but ruled out |
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Natural causes 'all but ruled out' in Colorado wildfire
By Jason Hanna, CNN
updated 2:19 PM EDT, Thu June 20, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* "We are pretty confident it was not, for instance, a lightning strike," sheriff says
* Official: Black Forest Fire, near Colorado Springs, might be 100% contained Thursday
* Fire killed two people, destroyed hundreds of structures
(CNN) -- With firefighters close to extinguishing one of the most destructive fires in Colorado's history, investigators have "all but ruled out natural causes" in the blaze near Colorado Springs, a sheriff told reporters Thursday.
Authorities still are determining what caused this month's 16,000-acre Black Forest Fire, which killed two people, destroyed more than 500 structures and prompted tens of thousands of people to flee.
But investigators scouring a 24-square-foot area where the fire is thought to have started believe a natural cause is out of the question, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said.
"I can't really go any further on that, but I can say we are pretty confident it was not, for instance, a lightning strike," he said.
Maketa said earlier this week that the fire was being treated as a crime scene, meaning in part that investigators were preserving every piece of evidence that they could. But he said he wasn't ready to say whether a crime was committed.
The fire was 95% contained Thursday morning, and firefighters planned to have it contained fully by Thursday evening, federal incident commander Rich Harvey said.
The blaze rapidly ravaged woods and neighborhoods in a mostly rural area northeast of Colorado Springs last week, and firefighters struggled to keep up in the early days, thanks to little rain and blustery winds. But more favorable conditions helped firefighters raise containment from 5% Friday to 65% Sunday.
County spokesman Dave Rose told CNN last week that the fire appeared to be the most destructive in the history of Colorado.
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Date: June 13, 2013 at 12:09:41
From: PJ/No CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Colorado Wildfires |
URL: http://live.denverpost.com/Event/Colorado_wildfires_Royal_Gorge_Black_Forest_Big_Meadows_fires |
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This article on Drudge Report...see link, that there are 360 million dollar homes lost now, 15,000 acres burned.
The insurance companies will have a fit over this.
I feel so sad for anyone losing their property to fire.
It's horrible!
For some reason, I can't get the article to come in, but I have an old computer.
PJ
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Date: June 13, 2013 at 11:51:23
From: Leslie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Colorado Wildfires |
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I'm on the north slope of the Palmer Divide about 20
miles north of the area. Flames were visible at the
house the evenings it was really going.
Today we are in haze which is mostly smoke. WX is
saying rain but most of it will go NE of the area.
I do agree on the wind, a calm day is 10MPH here since
I am in the open on the next to highest ridge before
the final ridge that looks over into the Denver valley
at about 7,000 feet
Latest is maybe 360 homes could be gone, we will get an
update this afternoon around 5PM MDT.
The bridge is OK, just a few burnt wood timbers but
since it is steel it is standing. Some structures
around are gone.
I have friends in Elbert county where I live who are on
the east side of this and they should be moved out by
now to a safe place. The boy scout camp was evacuated
Wednesday to the Elbert County fair grounds at Kiowa
and that is the staging area for all who evacuate.
I am in open defensible space with about 15 miles to
where the fire north evacuation line is now. If it
even tries to move this way people are ready with
tractors and such to cut fire lines across the ranch
land and use the tank sprayers to soak the grass.
Interesting to note is the north side of The Palmer got
a lot more snow and moisture than the Black Forest side
which is the south side of The Palmer.
The KRDO site is a good one to visit as is 740AM KVOR
as they are providing good updates in between regular
programs.
Now if we could get those rain storms to the East to
come here it would really help.
Leslie
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Date: June 13, 2013 at 19:08:44
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Colorado Wildfires |
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Thanks for the live update, and prayers going out to all
those in the area and the firefighters who are battling
this.
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