Ermer Gerd therse a FYR!! (Waldo Canyon Fire Merge)

[theGinsue]

Hopefully the MAFFS teams will be ale to slow this thing down.

Word this afternoon was that they were having to pull a couple of the MAFFS units to other fires in the nation.

ETA: just saw the post above about Hoser's crew & the Boulder Fire. Hopefully we get to keep these guys as long as it takes. God Bless them.

[jackthewall81]

First off, a HUGE thank you to all law enforcement officers & firefighters working this Colorado Springs fire!

Next, I realize I never should have gone into this area, but I didn't realize how bad things had gotten until I got close to my target.....

I got a call from my boss @ 5:15 this evening. He said he was evacuating and asked if I could come get his guns & hold them for him. He lives (lived?) Off of Pinion valley & Centennial.

I had been taking a nap & when I walked outside my home @ Powers & Dublin (east side of town) the smoke over here was so bad you'd have thought the entire next street over was on fire. The wind was so bad that at one point my Celica got pushed.

As I got closer to my bosses neighborhood the smoke was getting really bad - visibility down to less than 1/10 of a mile. I made it onto Centennial but the smoke was so thick I missed the turn onto Pinion Valley & made it a 1/2 block passed looking for a place to turn into his neighborhood - there wasn't any place & the traffic was at a standstill. I realized that the cross street right in front of me was 30th Street....

Police had the traffic coming South out of Mtn Shadows neighborhood given the right-of-way but then had everyone Northbound (my flow) turn West onto 30th down to Garden of the Gods road. I looked right as I drove past Flying W Ranch Road & the fire was literally between 25 to 50 feet from 30th Street.

I got the hell out of there as quickly as traffic would allow & got onto Northbound I-25. Traffic was bumper to bumper & visibility was very poor. Got off to Eastbound Woodman & got home. When I got out of my car, I realized I was shaking (got burned in a fire years ago).

Damned spooky thing to see firsthand!

Good to hear you are ok... But did you get his guns?

[theGinsue]

Understand one of our own is on those planes. May god go with him.

Amen-Fly safe Hoser and THANK YOU

Amen brother. Thanks Hoser.

Agreed! Hoser - please ensure your guys know just how much EVERYONE appreciates all that you guys do!

[theGinsue]

Good to hear you are ok... But did you get his guns?

Negative - no joy. Couldn't get back towards him. The cell phone service but buried but he called my wife who got ahold of me & told me to disregard as they were pulling out & he got the guns.

[RYAN50BMG]

Agreed! Hoser - please ensure your guys know just how much EVERYONE appreciates all that you guys do!

Yep, me too.

[marty]

Yes, thanks to you guys working this.

[flan7211]

Any way to volunteer?????? They need shovels and axe hands we can all do that!

[Ridge]

Yikes!

[jackthewall81]

This news is not even on national television... Fvcking liberal media somehow doesn't see this as anything important.

[Ridge]

This news is not even on national television... Fvcking liberal media somehow doesn't see this as anything important.

Dude, didn't you hear? Michael Jackson died 3 years ago today!