whats on fire?

[cofi]

jerrymrc, did you hear if that was inside the evac zone or otherwise?

kktv was reporting on car breakins at the evac centers and reports of 1 house alarm

but kktv says there is a LOT of UNSUBSTANTIATED reports on looting inside the burn areas

[Colorado_Outback]

Finally able to get on here after being evacuated a couple days ago. My thoughts and prayers are sent to all of you who have lost property in this fire.

Glad your safe.

Heres what it looks like from space.

Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires.
Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team / NASA GSFC

[Birddog1911]

I wonder if I'd be welcome to patrol the evac centers with my rifle? Seriously, fucking assholes deserve every possible evil that I can think of.

[jerrymrc]

kktv was reporting on car breakins at the evac centers and reports of 1 house alarm

but kktv says there is a LOT of UNSUBSTANTIATED reports on looting inside the burn areas

Anyone that knows the area with a ATV can bypass roadblocks and get to places in the burn area. Many of the old areas of BF have trails that the locals built years ago to get around and to friends places. I hope for the best.

[Zundfolge]

One of the sad things I am hearing is widespread looting and many cars broken into and just stupid stuff taken. Thieves are just driving around looking for cars piled with stuff. Just makes me want to them.

Ya know, I'm not generally one to support even more new laws and in particular I'm not one to encourage the state to make more things a felony, but frankly if you're caught stealing in a disaster area or from evacuees it should be an automatic Class C felony ... 10-25. Also there should be automatic legal immunity for anyone that kills looters.

[car-15]

Ya know, I'm not generally one to support even more new laws and in particular I'm not one to encourage the state to make more things a felony, but frankly if you're caught stealing in a disaster area or from evacuees it should be an automatic Class C felony ... 10-25. Also there should be automatic legal immunity for anyone that kills looters.

the asswipes from the last fire got a nice long time to think about it.
http://www.denverpost.com/wildfires/...lengthy-prison

COLORADO SPRINGS — A man and woman convicted of looting a house after its owners had fled the Waldo Canyon fire were sentenced Wednesday to lengthy prison terms.Shane Erik Garrett, 36, received 48 years in prison. He had faced a sentence in the triple digits for the June 26 burglary, in which roughly $3,000 worth of property was stolen from the Mountain Shadows neighborhood home of Chris and Carol White.His co-defendant, Belinda Wells-Yates, 39, was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to 72 years.A jury convicted the pair of a variety of crimes at a February trial, including burglary, identity theft and methamphetamine possession. Wells-Yates is believed to have entered the home through a doggy door under a scheme the pair had planned to repeat as flames threatened to wipe out entire neighborhoods in Colorado Springs — with Wells-Yates telling an undercover officer they were "chasing the fire."

[streetglideok]

kktv was reporting on car breakins at the evac centers and reports of 1 house alarm

but kktv says there is a LOT of UNSUBSTANTIATED reports on looting inside the burn areas

That's lovely. I'll be at one this weekend helping out. Some people need to be hanged.

[LippCJ7]

just got back a little while ago, inciweb has been updated

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3424/

Updated fire perimeter map on Google Earth

http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/Ge...013%200255.kml

Now that the Fed's have taken over we are waiting for assignment under the Federal umbrella, frustrating but what can you do, we are still on standby for the county in case the fire makes a run into Douglas or Elbert Counties but today the fire laid down on the north side and the crews should have gotten a lot of work done, as I told Outback we found that Grass will not carry the fire at any speed at all unless it is tall grass with lots of dry dead top growth which is pretty rare in that area lots of livestock etc.., so on the northern part of Black Forest where the trees become more patchy we have a good chance to stop it, problem is this fire is living in the canopy where its a completely different game.

[mtnrider]

jerrymrc, did you hear if that was inside the evac zone or otherwise?

I know of one break in for sure that was in the evac zone. North east corner of Black Forest.

[xjtwo]

just got back a little while ago, inciweb has been updated

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3424/

Updated fire perimeter map on Google Earth

http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/Ge...013%200255.kml

Now that the Fed's have taken over we are waiting for assignment under the Federal umbrella, frustrating but what can you do, we are still on standby for the county in case the fire makes a run into Douglas or Elbert Counties but today the fire laid down on the north side and the crews should have gotten a lot of work done, as I told Outback we found that Grass will not carry the fire at any speed at all unless it is tall grass with lots of dry dead top growth which is pretty rare in that area lots of livestock etc.., so on the northern part of Black Forest where the trees become more patchy we have a good chance to stop it, problem is this fire is living in the canopy where its a completely different game.

Thank you LippCJ7!

Makes me wish I would've stayed with Falcon Fire as I feel really helpless right now.........