almost had a fire on our property this week
so my family has 70 acres in fairplay by antero res. My brother annd I had smelled smoke on the 4th in the morning and we just figured it was waldo canon and we didnt think to much of it. durring our lunch about 4 hours later our cousin starts yelling FIRE and we come out of the rv and we see a pretty large plume of smoke only 100 feet away from us just below a 15 or 20 foot cliff right next to a 50ft blue spruce. We are lucky because we have a swiming pool we put up just in case of a fire and we also have a well. So we start grabing 5 gallon buckets of water out of the pool and run down the mountain and below the tree there is tons of dead pine cones and pine needles when we got there the fire was 15ft circle and was starting to creep up the tree. Once we got the fire out I rode my dirtbike down to the neighbors to see if they had a fire or if they were shooting off fireworks but they were just working on there cabin. So we were baffled so we called the FD just to be safe and they determined the cause of the fire was a lightning strike to the spruce a few days prior and what they told us was when lightning hits a tree the fire starts at the roots and it can smolder for days before a fire starts which is pretty scary. I can belive how lucky we got thank god we were there
