What I find absolutely unbelievable is with all of this destruction and with how quickly this fire spread that there is still no reported loss of human life. Of course, we can expect that there were likely homes destroyed with pets inside where the owners couldn't get back to get them and this is very regrettable, but this many homes GONE and no one died? Amazing.

Throughout the day I've seen multiple comparisons between this fire and the Hayman, Waldo Canyon and Black Forest Fires. The one thing you don't hear in those comparisons is those other fires took days to wreak their carnage but the Marshall Fire took less than a day to wipe out so many homes and businesses - destroying lifetimes of collected memories and cherished possessions. Truly devastating.

What's sad is that there should be many lessons learned from this to try to avoid having it happen again but I doubt anything of value learned from this will result in better methods for building and mitigation going forward.