Fire in Western Boulder County

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07-09-2016, 19:59
Hummer

Damn, I drove through there yesterday from our cabin off the Peak to Peak. Forest fires are scary dangerous and unpredictable. I'll never forget the bombers flying over our place dropping slurry on the Beaver Reservoir fire barely a mile away. Glad I've done the fire mitigation around our place, have taken several hundred trees out but more yet to go....

Conditions are dry up there now, and so many campers are clueless careless. For people and wildlife, it's not a good time for forest fires. Hope they quash that one fast.

While we were in BoCo, there was another fire on BLM land less than a mile from our house. It's a big burn area now.
07-09-2016, 20:18
.455_Hunter

Ah Pook- Are you still seeing large flame fronts?
07-09-2016, 20:32
Ah Pook

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Ah Pook- Are you still seeing large flame fronts?

Can't see flames from town. The smoke plume does look smaller though. Been looking for a "reliable" update but it's slow in coming.
07-09-2016, 20:36
GilpinGuy

Tom, you know you have a place to stay if you need it. Just give me a ring.

Just got stopped on the way down Wedgwood to go to work. Smoke spotted up here somere, but "probably" just a camp fire according to the firefighters. Yeah, work can wait until the probably becomes a certainty.
07-09-2016, 20:45
Ah Pook

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

Tom, you know you have a place to stay if you need it. Just give me a ring.

Just got stopped on the way down Wedgwood to go to work. Smoke spotted up here somere, but "probably" just a camp fire according to the firefighters. Yeah, work can wait until the probably becomes a certainty.

Big thanks GG!!!!! I'm good.

There is a big campfire near Mt. Thoraden(sp?). They are getting ready to have a bad evening. Sheriffs and Timberline in route.

A fire ban is in place. Multiple calls of camper fires. Taking people off the front lines to deal with these dick heads... It's time to close the mountains.
07-09-2016, 20:49
Ah Pook

Damn our local "news" outlets suck. There must be good donuts at the high school.

I just went to a Twitter feed, for the wildfire, for the first time. What a cluster boink. Useless!
07-09-2016, 21:30
GilpinGuy

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Originally Posted by Ah Pook

Big thanks GG!!!!! I'm good.

There is a big campfire near Mt. Thoraden(sp?). They are getting ready to have a bad evening. Sheriffs and Timberline in route.

A fire ban is in place. Multiple calls of camper fires. Taking people off the front lines to deal with these dick heads... It's time to close the mountains.

This is probably what I was seeing. Thoradin is real close.
07-09-2016, 21:30
hatidua

Wife and I were up there at a prescheduled gathering today at a large home in the burn area. We saw dark clouds of smoke and decided to get out while the getting-out was good. Best wishes to those in the area, we left before it got sporty.
07-09-2016, 22:04
.455_Hunter

How stupid/careless/ass hat do you have to be to still think a big campfire is good to go when a forest fire is burning near by?

I want my mountains back...
07-09-2016, 22:08
hatidua

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How stupid/careless/ass hat do you have to be to still think a big campfire is good to go when a forest fire is burning near by?

I want my mountains back...

I had a company contact me about shooting a photo for an ad last year and they wanted a campfire scene in the forest. I told them that it was out of the question to shoot that in CO in the Summer as the risk was too high. The company was in VA and they simply did not understand why that was such an issue.

We've had a relatively quiet couple of years in terms of fire but one careless vagabond in the woods can really cause a lot of trouble.

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