Fires across Colorado

[00tec]

Centennial to Aurora to Watkins to Hudson to Bennett:
May as well stand directly over a shitty pine campfire.

[APEXgunparts]

The east central side of Colorado Springs is under heavy smoke.
It has that campfire smell.
You can see the clouds of smoke moving along.
I don't think this is going away soon.

Richard

[brutal]

Very smokey in Parker too.

[GilpinGuy]

Incredible pics here:
https://943thex.com/time-lapse-downt...oke-wednesday/

[Eric P]

It looks bad up north.

[Hummer]

I sure don't envy anyone working on this fire but we do appreciate the efforts.

We're about 30 miles south of the fire where it's approaching Storm Mountain and Drake but the smoke is worse than when we had the Beaver Reservoir fire only a mile away. The worst we've ever seen here, and much worse along the Peak to Peak than in Longmont. The photo doesn't show how truly grim it is.

Working on fire mitigation clearing dead wood from the property all summer. I've hauled away ~45 cu. yds. of slash this year alone. Unfortunately the county forestry sort yard that collects, composts and burns forest materials closes for the year this Saturday.

[hollohas]

News says most of the smoke olume we're seeing in Denver today is from the new East Troublesome fire which blew up today I guess.

Nasty year for fires.

[Mtneer]

Working on fire mitigation clearing dead wood from the property all summer. I've hauled away ~45 cu. yds. of slash this year alone. Unfortunately the county forestry sort yard that collects, composts and burns forest materials closes for the year this Saturday.

Wood is wood. Dead trees are lower risk than green trees once the former have passed the red stage, even in the gray stage. Bigger issue is creating substantial gaps in the canopy and removing all ladder fuels.

Yeah, the orange skies are ominous. Worst since Fourmile Fire.

[Gman]

I saw the air quality warning on the phone today. I saw "East Troublesome" wildfire and had to wonder if "East Problematic" wildfire was already taken?

[hollohas]

Sitting here in my type 6 on top of glen haven, the wind is fierce. Fire is moving.

Actually we moved to storm mountain drive by monastery campsite.

Praying for a break in the wind and better weather to help you guys out.