HIGH PARK FIRE IN CO.- Aerial Picture taken 06-13-12

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Looks like Sheep Mtn., about a mile and a half from my house in Glacier View. Huge thanks to the tankers and ground crews that have been battling that. It gets past there and my house is next. It's been trying to get past sheep mtn. for several days now, but everytime, the choppers are there to put it down. I was evacuated last thursday. Living in the camper a few miles from my house in another part of Glacier View. Some pics here http://www.facebook.com/paul.block.96?ref=tn_tnmn

Good luck.


So you are from Rochester huh? Been in Rochester and now Plainview since 2002. How long ago did you make the escape from corn and soy beans?

 

[PJ-Hunter]

WOW.

 

[av8er]

new pics

pics

 

[milehighassassin]

I would have to say that this one is not being managed correctly!!!

I thoroughly disagree. They are doing everything in their powers to manage it. 30-45 MPH winds with gusts at 60 MPH are not something you can work with. Zero % humidity, 100 degree temperatures and a forest full of houses surrounded by beetle bitten trees.

This state sadly has been due for some major fires for a long time. Fires are natural and need to happen. It is always sad when people lose their homes, but when you build your homes in the middle of the forest you know you are taking a risk.

Now is a good time for everyone to check and update your homeowners/renters insurance. Remember, you want your policy to have a "full replacement value" written into it.


I live about 1 mile from the Fire's Eastern Edge, my house is in basically ZERO danger of burning because of horsetooth reservoir and lots of rock, plus actually fire hydrants. I have been living in a smoke filled house for 3 weeks. It sucks but at least I am in my home every night.

 

[skidoorulz]

It is time they put some of the anti logging crowd out on the fire lines so they can see first hand at what their years of stupidity have caused. I mean for crying out loud not even to be able to log the beetle kill is absolutely assinine. The whole Rocky mtns north to south are in big trouble this year. Fires this size and it is only June? We can only hope for rain rain rain all of July and August but the long range is not promising

 

[av8er]

game over they released me from the fire yesterday

good luck to all.

 

[bushy]

Thanks for you help av8er and thanks to all the firefighters busting their azz in this 100 degree heat. Terrible working conditions. Mis-managed? Easy to second guess and mistakes are going to happen, but they did their best and with only one life lost, ya gotta hand it to them. That life lost was her own choice, she was warned by the sheriff in person. That's not public knowledge, but it is the truth. They have done their best and done a helluva job. When the wind kicks up to 40 mph there ain't much managing going on. There is running for your life. I was there and saw it. No number of houses is worth the lives of our brave firefighters.

I lost my home last friday in Glacier View. It was on the front lines where the spot fire jumped across the Poudre River. I watched them pound that area for days with aircraft but it was to no avail. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do when the weather conspires against you. The winds blew so hard that my subdivision was gone in about a half an hour and the fire raced eight miles east by sunset, burning another 8,000 acres in that time.

The video of my neighborhood just after the fire went through. You can see my foundation at about 1:20 of the video. It's the upper "house" between the two houses that survived the fire. Both with hardyboard siding. Just amazing anything survived and some trees remained un-burnt.
http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=273814

Thanks to all my SW brothers and sisters for their well wishes and generous offers of help. I think I have good insurance so I should be OK. State Farm better step up this time.

Now the focus has moved to that terrible fire in Colorado Springs. 32,000 have been evacutated as of tonight. A real catastrophy in the making, but at least people are getting out. Property can be replaced, but life is precious. My thoughts and prayers are with them.

 

[bushy]

Good luck.


So you are from Rochester huh? Been in Rochester and now Plainview since 2002. How long ago did you make the escape from corn and soy beans?

I grew up on a farm near Dover. Spent a few years in Roch, then flew the coop in 1986. I loved MN, but didn't have a lot holding me there. I do miss the fishing up north though! Hard to get Walleye out here, but we do have a few reservoirs where you can catch some good eating fish.

 

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I grew up on a farm near Dover. Spent a few years in Roch, then flew the coop in 1986. I loved MN, but didn't have a lot holding me there. I do miss the fishing up north though! Hard to get Walleye out here, but we do have a few reservoirs where you can catch some good eating fish.

Don't blame ya one bit!!!! The lakes up north and family up there are all that holds us back.

 

[Aerosled]

Photos of waldo canyon fire

Photos of waldo canyon fire
http://photos.denverpost.com/mediac...canyon-fire-near-garden-of-the-gods/38318/#22