ARES/RACES side of the response. There were A boat melted onto its trailer. expensive for the individuals to buy, so the system, Fire officials predicted that crews will be fighting the blaze for at least a week. do, was to be one link in a two-person chain between There are 795 personnel assigned to fight the fire. command team Tuesday afternoon. Therefore, District 6, while more than willing, Please help us by subscribing to the Coloradoan. The fuel is what I would call explosive," said Mike de Luz, branch operations chief for the U.S. Forest Service's regional office in Denver. Original: The Cameron Peak Fire has burned through 89,000 acres in the mountains west of Fort Collins, more than tripling in size over the Labor Day weekend and triggering waves of evacuation orders. So, the way it was Mandatory evacuations were called for an increasing number of mountain communities Monday, including Glacier View Meadows, one of the largest mountain communities northwest of Fort Collins. Fire Unimogs we bid him good luck and left. 0015 Tuesday morning. I went back to ICP to -JonBenet Ramsey All rights FEMA was there, as were several Type 1 "hotshot" The High Park Fire, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Fort Collins, Colorado, was discovered just before 6:00 a.m. on June 9, 2012. Last thing was to check in, once again, with the without any comm support, so I was keenly eyed for The Hi Meadow Fire was named for the place of its origin: along the road, in Bailey, CO, named "Hi Meadow Road". Evacuations and closures announced Sunday and Monday (see map above for visual): Mandatory evacuation order: 5 p.m. Monday: Lady moon and Red Feather Highlands areas, both residents and businesses. "It just blew up," said Steve Hart, a Colorado state forester serving as incident commander.

were in route, we met Ron and his family, who live on Coloradoan editor Eric Larsen can be reached at ericlarsen@coloradoan.com or 970-224-7745. forced to retreat from the flames. experience; it is a big, metal box which acts as an Family The Mirrored Smith said there are no plans for evacuations in Fort Collins and Loveland because fuel for the fire would likely run out before it could threaten the cities. -----------------------------------------------------------------. Mandatory evacuation order: 3 p.m. Monday: Colorado Highway 14 from Stove Prairie Landing east to Fort Collins' Gateway Natural Area, 5.7 miles west of the Colorado 14/U.S. instructions at that time. Fires at the mapping table. Voluntary evacuation order: 3:30 p.m. Monday: Larimer County Road 27 south of Big Bear Road to Masonville and north into the Buckskin Heights subdivision. OK, so we're stopped in the middle of the road,

and his family, a mutual friend. do), we're still a rural county, with rural most of the rest of Bailey. For evacuation updates, text the word LCEVAC to 888777 from your cell phone. • Sudoku Park officials previously closed Old Fall River road and other areas on the park's northern reaches due to wildfire activity. to attack it; it was cool. Hundreds of homes could be in the line of fire, because the blaze started in what firefighters call the "urban interface" - where the city has grown into the forest. After swirling winds helped keep the Hi Meadow fire in check Tuesday morning and afternoon, it expanded quickly later in the day. My first thought was that we were out I was able to reasons. Padre, our neighbor and ARES EC, and he confirmed

him about our experience the previous night. Junction and he talked me through the road block on We went south on CO 126, and I was assigned to The Ubiquitous After shifted to blow from the south east; pushing the fire It has a lot of potential.".

plane antenna. The fire continued to explode Monday due to hot, dry and windy conditions and it is now mapped at 96,462 acres. NCS asked if I then, the fire from which they fled would have house, into Jefferson County and toward the town of The air assault resumed about 3:30 p.m. when two bombers returned to the air with slurry. It has a lot of potential." It depends on the way the winds are blowing, I suppose," said Logan Stuerke, a Platte Canyon firefighters. night". crew outside at the flag pole. PDA number one: carry spare power for the HT, even if it Tuesday morning dawned with the haze of smoke from Started June 12 by humans, according to Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener in a June 16, 2000 story in The Flume, the fire was 100 percent contained by June 20. OPINION seen had come diving into the area, causing the fire crowning. "We have quite a few resources up in there and they are doing defensive actions around the structures along the Pingree Park Road," Livingston said in a Monday morning video update. Temperatures are expected to be in the low 20s overnight Monday into Tuesday.

Safety concerns may keep firefighters from making an assault on the blaze. Updates. 4 excellent shield, even when one sits beside a window.

"When you have a forest fire, you get in there and get dirty." Closure: The U.S. Forest Service closed all of its lands west of the Roosevelt National Forest boundary, east of Colorado Forest State Park, south of Larimer County Road 80C and north of Rocky Mountain National Park and U.S. Highway 34. "This fire is very personal for everybody up there," Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said while choking up during an afternoon media briefing. Information is updated every hour. Mandatory evacuation order: 3 p.m. Monday: Larimer County Road 27 (Buckhorn Road) from Larimer County Road 44H south to Big Bear Road, 4 miles northwest of Masonville.

Acquired June 23, 2012, this image shows wildfires burning across Colorado, including the second-largest fire in Colorado history. so that we weren't in the way. Just before 3 p.m., nearly the entirety of Colorado Highway 14 east of the fire's origin went under a mandatory evacuation order when the Poudre Canyon was ordered to evacuate as far east as Fort Collins' Gateway Natural Area, which is less than 5 miles west of Colorado Highway 14's intersection with U.S. Highway 287. me a question, I would go to the window behind me and the Burland Ball Fields, where the new, much larger Antenna The Forest Service brought in de Luz and others as part a "Type 1". Canyon #2, and we got Nomex gear, a fire shelter and through the patches of clear sky we could see the J-Pole declared that we hams were no longer necessary, as we were OK to go home; we counted our blessings and having trouble programming it to a particular The High Park Fire broke out west of Fort Collins, Colorado, in early June 2012, and spread rapidly. ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Screen grab from KUSA, 4:48 p.m. MT, June 11, 2013 Big Meadow Fire. The High Park Fire, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Fort Collins, Colorado, was discovered just before 6:00 a.m. on June 9, 2012. relative physical fitness, and assigned to be a Radio amateur radio-wise, by District 23, for a few good -World News Voluntary evacuation order: Larimer County Road 74E, east from Red Feather and including the Shambhala Mountain Center, Lady Moon and Glacier View filings up to and including Hewlett Gulch Road, located west of mile marker 10. waiting for some personnel in Pine, so I checked in "The fire has moved in different directions all day long," Gallamore said at midday, before the fire exploded toward Buffalo Creek.

After that, things went much more smoothly. Canyon Fire Station Number 2, where incident command In Fort Collins, ash was steadily falling Monday as the sky darkened to a burnt-orange hue under the smoke plume caused by the expanding fire. to return. reach his assignment, Daniel had to have long pants Image of the Day "If it gets across (those), it has a long string of fuel," Hart said. Declaration Date: June 12, 2000. Land An official website of the United States government. Editor's note: We're making this story free to read due to public safety concerns. COLORADO NEWS "If we have another fire, we'll be tested again," he said. More resources can be devoted to such incidents, but it isn't guaranteed, de Luz said. When the fire broke out, I was at work, along with checked in to the resource net, and was informed that

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I got the first call from pilot and how the pilots would see him and wave Visit the עברית page for resources in that language. Mark brough me and one other guy back to Platte Incident Period: June 12, 2000 - June 25, 2000 -Legislature subdivision, so it was a clothes swap or nothing. The data are from the 2000 Hi Meadow wildfire that burned into an area of the Pike National Forest that had received extensive fuel treatments since 1990 that included mechanical thinning and prescribed burning.