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Figured it should get its own thread
the hayden pass fire is at 5000 acres and still growing quickly
it started On the San Isabel side of the sangre de Christo mountains but as the girl and I where leaving the valley had made it onto the rio grande
also my mom is the district ranger down there and this will be her first fire as the ranger. She is a bit stressed
Been breathing the smoke from it up here in The Springs most of the day ... reminds me of the smoke from the Waldo Canyon fire (reminds me a little too much).
Icky smoke has made it thru castle rock....ugh
Thoughts going out. I feel for your mother but bet she can handle it.
Wish your mom luck.
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Originally Posted by Irving
she will do just fine she has 28 years with the forest service including more than a few fires working on the hand crew
working her way to district ranger
we noticed it from their house around 2 and watched it blow up. We where able to see flames from over 40 miles away with the naked eye at one point.
I have a cousin on the fire in Nederland and my little sister is on the medicine bow crew my dad and myself all worked wildland fire at one point so fire runs in the family
Yeah, was able to smell it here in Parker around the time of your post, as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyome
Does anybody know of any forum members or families that need help? I'm obviously not in a position to directly help, but this forum is full of good people who always overwhelmingly overcome hard times with generosity.
Don't know of any that need help yet- still >15 miles from nearest ones I know of in Cotopaxi...
but can you see the smoke here in Penrose? Attachment 66191Attachment 66192Attachment 66193
That's why it was so smokey at my place last night. I had to close the windows or else the house would have smelled like a camp fire.
I hope it is going a different direction then Cotopaxi. Our mountain property is in Glen Vista Estates.Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
7500 acres ish as of now
Guess it is 10k acres now.
http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Fre...386217851.html
Smelled no smoke from Castle Rock today. Was hoping that was a sign it was being contained.
My thoughts to. Not bad in SW COS.
Guess that is what I get for assuming. Might be going out to the property and pull the toy hauler home.
Yeah, my wife is a contracting officer with USFS and with the fires in the state she's still at work now and she got into her office at 5:30 after spending 6 hours up in Walden plus drive time yesterday and 8 hours in Laramie on Saturday. They're worried cause there is little to no moisture and mostly 90's predicted for the next 7 days across the state. My office pays the call up wildland firefighters for USFS and all DOI agencies, and we've been busy with them for about 3 months now with places like Alaska having wildfires early and California is always on fire it seems.
It supposedly heading East... which is away from Cotopaxi/Glen Vista area. I used to own a piece of that area too, on Cottonwood Dr. Sold it earlier this yearQuote:
Originally Posted by ColoradoTJ
Thank you for that valuable information. We are on Texas Creek Lane.Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger