FINAL UPDATE! High Park WildFire Destroys 87,200+ Acres In Colorado! 100 % Containment!

I have family that lives by FT. Collins(I moved to a different state a year ago). Some of the pictures they are showing are amazing, giant plumes of smoke a mile wide or more. In all my years in colorado I have never seen a fire that bad, and never so close to home. strange times.

It is pretty. What exactly makes them 2nd class citizens with regards to the right to put a home there?

We were in Estes Park a couple decades ago. In a tourist shop I looked at a book of pictures taken in the 1880s. Then they had taken the exact same picture 100 years later (side by side).

The earlier pictures looked scraggly and barren, the later pictures we're dense lush pine forest and beautiful, completely opposite of what I expected.

Requesting Backup from Vladimir Putin via Beriev BE-200 amphibious aircraft..

Cause of the high risk of Colorado Forest Fires.. duh !

Theres supposed to be a number of clearance between houses and pine trees but people just think about themselves and the view outside their window.

Smart lady, Just as theres dangers in the city, and people choose their homes and neighbors and security with the life of themselves and their possessions in mind, theres dangers in nature too.

I know a real estate agent in the city and he says people do ask and research the crime rate of a area they are looking at homes, so why dont people research the safety of a wilderness home the same way????

* UPDATE!

"LARIMER COUNTY — More than 43,000 acres have been burned by the High Park Fire, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, and 500 firefighters will tackle the fire today."

"There is "some containment" on the fire, which started Saturday with a lightning strike, the sheriff tweeted. At 43,433 acres, the fire is the third-largest in Colorado history."

"Smoke from the fire is impacting air quality from Wyoming down the Front Range."


"Areas where homes or structures have been burned include Rist Canyon, Paradise Park, Poudre Canyon, Poudre Park and Stove Prairie — along Old Flowers Road."

This morning the Larimer Sheriff sent pre-evacuation notifications to parts of Glacier View for the area south of County Road 74E, south and east of McNay Hill. This includes residents on Hewlett Gulch Road, Deer Meadow Way, Gordon Creek Lane and connecting roadways in that area.





Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 11:27 AM

EVERY Western Forest IS GOING TO BURN ... EVENTUALLY.

The ONLY Questions are WHEN and HOW HOT.

The longer a Western Forest goes without burning the HOTTER and FIERCER the fire will be when it eventually comes. Fire is a natural part of the cycle of nature in the west, and there is NO WAY MAN WILL STOP IT.

Man may delay a fire's arrival, sometimes by decades, but that will only mean that when it arrives the deadfall in the forest is going to be denser and create a much hotter and faster moving fire than would otherwise have been then case.

Build a structure in a Western Forest? It IS going to eventually be in the path of a fire. It is very akin to building a structure in a Flood Plain. IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!!

I personally have NO SYMPATHY for those who build in the Western Forests and then complain about Forest Fires. What do they expect? That if they would instead move to and build a house in the Pacific NW that it won't rain there anymore because rain is "inconvenient" for THEM?

Fire is natural in dry country Western Forests ... and NOTHING man does is going to stop it from eventually consuming EVERY acre of dry country wilderness forest at some point in time.

On wild fires like this clearance around the home is not enough. People wanting to live in these places should know the risk. certainly homes need NON combustible roofs and a drive thru these area prove most to not and they have highly combustible decks and siding. People seem to have minds of nothing when they do this stuff. ditto those who live in other high risk areas such as flood plains and on top of quake faults.

Rich people with money to burn have no common sense, Literal tree huggers that want the dry timber in their window every morning

They have money to burn so they buy up llamas and sheep and play rancher in direct line of forest fires...

They think they are above and beyond everyone else, They want to get away from the dirty city, not realizing that mother nature is doubly harsh and she has no mercy. She comes first and that means natural cleansing of a old and overcrowded forest.

Filled with Agenda 21 shills.

Al Qaeda?

Sad but true.

Ya, we know there are no fires in the cities right?

We know there is no flooding in the cities, right?

We know there are no tornadoes in the cities, right?

We know there are no earthquakes in the cities, right?

We know that your chances for crime in the cities is non-existent, right?

Shall I continue?

We should follow agenda 21 and enjoy the burn that these types have helped to set up by their so-called management of the forest.

We all know cities are self sustaining, right?

Whatever.

Personally, I think all home in jeopardy of being caught in a forest fire should have to pass a fire mitigation inspection. If certain criteria are not met they are last in line for emergency assistance. It's a given these measures will not work in every situation.

that fire years ago, Hayden fire or something like that was worse and hit 100,000 acres or more. I still have blue jays who migrated down here from that one. We have a lot of smoke from it here in Thornton this morning. I did not think of closing my windows during the night and my house smells terrible inside. Looks like bad smog outside.

This fire was reported hours before anyone showed up to address it.


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It's an Agenda 21 land grab IMO.

Howdy neighbor...128th and Zuni here.

1 Reported Death

FORT COLLINS — The woman who died in the High Park fire received two evacuation notifications on the day the fire started but both calls went to voicemail, the Larimer County sheriff said this evening.

Sheriff Justin Smith identified the victim as 62-year-old Linda Steadman. She lived alone on 9123 Old Flowers Road. A deputy and a firefighter made it to her property on Saturday but were stoppped by the blaze and a locked gate, Smith said.

"We have a burned-out structure," Smith said. "The individual would have most likely been within the structure."

Steadman's family issued a statement late tonight.

"Linda Steadman, mother, grandmother, sister and wife, perished in the cabin she loved," the statement said. "As you can imagine, this is a difficult time for the Steadman family, and they ask that they are allowed time to grieve privately."

Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 12:52 PM

It may seem that way now but what Agenda 21 will do is permit the Elite ,the Chosen to occupy choice areas and the rest will be hereded into the cities.

Those "cities" are planned to be like reservations.

bumpity bump

Scary...

im in fort collins and we had a hell of a storm cell roll thru here the day or two before the fire started with lightning like i have not seen in a long time and hail. i mean up and down lightning, sideways lightning, spread across the sky lightning...

but, other than that, it's pretty much parched in these parts.

To put the size of the fire into perspective -- at more than 41,000 acres, the fire is almost as large as both the cities of Boulder and Fort Collins, Colorado combined.



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Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 05:30 PM

High Park Fire Update

[link to larimersheriff.org]

Issued 6/12/12 at 10:30 a.m. by John Schulz, Public Information Officer

The High Park Fire is now at 43,433 with 5% containment.




Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 05:33 PM

The DRY weather forecast and surrounding forest areas are a really bad sign. I believe this fire will worsen greatly and continue to spread. The fact that the fire departments are GRATEFUL and HOPING to have 10% contained soon... is also a very bad sign. Please stay SAFE and INFORMED in Fort Collins Salt.



Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 05:36 PM

the firefighters focus today has been to contain the area between our part of town and the fire, and the southern portion btwn horsetooth and loveland. i am hoping that they accomplish as much as possible today. we have ash and embers in the air here. my neighbor found a burnt business card in her backyard today...

Evacuation orders have been issued for the entire Pingree Park Road area, to include Hourglass and Comanche Reservoirs, east on the Buckhorn Road up to and including Pennock Pass, northeast to the intersection of Stove Prairie Road and Highway 14, and west to the intersection of Highway 14 and Pingree Park Road. All evacuated citizens may go to The McKee building at The Ranch at I25 and Crossroads Boulevard.

And so it continues...

Last Edited by Six Six Six on 06/12/2012 07:53 PM

I'm checking in now. I lost everything, it's all gone. My entire world has been turned upside down. I hurt so bad this morning when I woke up, I wished I would have stayed and gone down with the ship. But I'm still alive, and life goes on.

There must have been 400-500 4X4's coming down Rist Canyon at the same time that I got out. All my neighbors lost everything they had and worked for also.

The news reports are not correct, much much more loss than they are reporting, and it's just starting, Colorado is going to be burnning for a very long time. The only thing anyone can do is help get people out alive.


I am happy to report one thging tho. The fkn beatles are all dead now!


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