Colorado Wildfires thread.... It's a big state let's keep each other up to date!

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.. Snorry

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I was just on the phone with a mutual friend of childhood friends that live extremely close to a fire.

Her: They're doing fine, no fire nearby.

Me: When did you last talk to them?

Her: Last Thursday.



Thanks for the maps, OP!

I live in Denver Metro - This is bring me to tears sad!! I look North smoke, South smoke and now with the boulder fire just stated today we look west and there is smoke.

Sites I uses to track

Inciweb

Weather underground -- Wundermap --has fire box shows satellite detected fires and other stuff. I keep the smoke cover option off because since a few days after the High Park fire started and I woke to a smoke cloud in my neighborhood (I live a good hour+ away)its so depressing.

I also use websites that have live feeds of emergency scanners and listen to the fire departments and emergency personal.

DH works north of Boulder and they could see the fire start, well the smoke first appear just after a lightening strike. Last update was at 300 acres and growing quickly. They were hoping to keep it from cresting a ridge closest to Boulder, it didn't happen. If this makes a big run with all the wind they are getting this evening, then this will be bigger news than most of the fires combined.

I lived in Evergreen for 10 years. I miss Colorado. I am so sad this is happening.

Live news conference now about Boulder fire

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Boulder fire from Wadsworth and Highway 36 today. The smoke went from almost nothing to looking like a Volcano in 50 minutes.

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Last Edited by LurkerLisa on 06/26/2012 11:00 PM