Latest on 4 wildfires burning on Colorado Front Range

Several wildfires are burning throughout Colorado this week as the state continues to grapple with a prolonged stretch of dry, hot weather.


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[jane]

This is so tragic. Keep everyone safe. These firefighters are all heroes. And all those people who are helping them.

[Ascension]

Might be a coincidence, but if you look at the positioning of the 2 northern fires they're next to highways... Yea correlation don't mean causation but its a start somewhere I guess. And the southern 2 are in the middle of parks lol. This has negligence and maybe something else written all over it. Weather's been clear too so no lightning.

[kevinbraun]

Human caused fires? When was the last year we had fires like this? 2020? What do these years have in common? Election years? Quite interesting to say the least.

[DRFelGood]

Since when has it ever been safe to fight a fire. Interesting pattern of these fires 🤔

[fu_]

That must be her “news reporter” voice.

[GlynDomingue]

I don't listen for burn bands in my area. If look a little dry I don't burn anything, better to be safe than sorry.

[AKrn]

Smokey says remember: Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

[ginogrey]

These news reporters are borderline cartoon characters.

[douglasscharnberg]

Only you can prevent forest fires, but only the forestry service would poison the water with forever chemicals while putting out the fires.

[chrisdelong]

Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. {GC 589.3}

[Productions]

I got information on how the fire could’ve started. Who do I call?

[ropo]

Did anyone check to see if the reporting officer was in posession of matches or a lighter? Great okace to start

[hisimagenme]

You can tell most these people are not native Coloradians or if they are, they've smoked too much weed to remember... these fires are baby and laid down fast. "Almost 300 acres!" She exclaims! If the weather had been really that bad or Colorado really that dry (it's not) it would have been 13000 acres in one day. Reservoirs would have been so low they couldn't draw from them to fight the fires. The drama hype these camp fires have gotten is ridiculous. These were nice natural fire containment type fires that will likely help future fires from spreading so fast it makes your head spin. Everyone should be grateful in many ways that these fires happened this year (a wet Colorado) and when they did (weather). Sad to see it cost a life, never a good thing. But if you live in the mountains ANYWHERE you better be prepared to lose it all to a forest fire eventually - it's part of a natural process there and to expect fire crews and rescue purple to save you or your home from it at the risk of their lives is stupid. Only in the last 20-30 years have people been so self absorbed and dependant on insurance to fix life when it happens. Most the time humans have lived, they had no insurance, there were no hot spot fire rescue crews or planes that dropped retardant... or any thing of the sort. I don't know whose keeping records for Colorado but i grew up there (54 years old now) and the record highs are much higher than they say and Colorado is soaking wet compared to its drought days. It's always gotten 100 plus in summer and there is nothing new under the sun there, except the people who now live and run that state... it's gone to hades and it will never be the same again. Stop dredging drama and when you see smoke in the mountains stop acting like it's the end of the world. It's normal and if period don't want to lose their homes and animals to a fire, they better live on the plains where a fire is less likely to wipe them out. If in the mountains, it's going to happen, not if but when. Makes me sad to see such things, of course, but it can be prevented, by people not living where fire will reclaim its territory whether the weather is good or bad or people live there or not. People make bad decisions, not nature. There's a much needed reason for every single thing it does.

[jimchambers]

Just wandering if there was any love letters in the area