Fires across Colorado

[hollohas]

Very scary stuff up there at East Troublesome. 19k acres up to 125k...

[Sawin]

Very scary stuff up there at East Troublesome. 19k acres up to 125k...

holy crap that's a true explosion. God be with those people and fire fighters!

[buffalobo]

The Grand County scanner was sobering this evening.

Have had to limit scanner listening last couple weeks. Too much bad stuff is hard on the nerves.

[JTP80]

Very scary stuff up there at East Troublesome. 19k acres up to 125k...

Really crazy when you consider it was 38* when I left for work this morning. There was a stiff breeze though.

[.455_Hunter]

The area that exploded yesterday was essentially a forest of dead trees. Nothing you can do when it's dry and windy.

[SuperiorDG]

I'm at 8300 ft and it was 54 degrees when I left this AM. A breeze was blowing as well.

My porch cam shows sunny weather right now.

[BPTactical]

The area that exploded yesterday was essentially a forest of dead trees. Nothing you can do when it's dry and windy.

I remember looking at Shadow Mountain years ago and thinking it would go up like a dry dandelion.

[Irving]

Every place I've ever hunted is full of dead fall that looks like it would be catastrophic if it ever caught fire.

[hollohas]

I assumed that the continental divide and treeline would stop the eastern advance of the East Troublesome fire. But there are some heat signatures that indicate it may have jumped over to the east side of the divide anyway. Seems unlikely to me, but I guess flying embers could end up anywhere with the 100,000 acre explosion last night. That smoke/heat/ember plume must have been massive.


https://twitter.com/weather_west/sta...251834881?s=10

[.455_Hunter]

Ugh- Estes Park Fire and EMS scanner confirms some fire activity near confluence of Spruce Creek and Forest Canyon on the east-side of the divide.