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Colorado Springs Fires - 32,000 people have been evacuated
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Posted on 06/26/2012 8:00:18 PM PDT by nuconvert

This is the Waldo Canyon fire. Winds grew to 65mph this afternoon and the fire went over the fire-breaks.

The Air Force Academy and surrounding neighborhood have been evacuated.

Interstare I-25 has been closed north of Colorado SPrings in order to allow local people use the highway to evacuate.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; coloradosprings; fire; usafa; vanity; waldocanyon; wildfires
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1 posted on 06/26/2012 8:00:23 PM PDT by nuconvert
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Colorado Springs Photos on Flickr
2 posted on 06/26/2012 8:03:24 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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My daughter, her husband, and their dog are among the 32,000. Pray for all the evacuees.


3 posted on 06/26/2012 8:03:41 PM PDT by Jemian
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The pictures of home burning on the edge of Colorado Springs that they are showing on the weather channel are terrible.


4 posted on 06/26/2012 8:03:56 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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Waldo Canyon Fire - Tuesday 6-26 5:50pm
5 posted on 06/26/2012 8:04:59 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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It’s worse than those pictures are showing


6 posted on 06/26/2012 8:05:50 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: KC Burke

Yes. The fire is stretched out for what looks like a mile or more and it looks like it’s coming down into neighborhoods.


7 posted on 06/26/2012 8:08:44 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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I have a lot of relatives and friends in the Springs. My sister posted a picture on facebook of the fire from the Citadel Mall and it was scary. My niece, who lives on the West side of 25 has been evacuated. My sister said there is ash everywhere and everything smells like smoke. Close friends live near the zoo/Cheyenne mt and I'm really concerned about them. I'm there 3 to 4 times a year, and it's so sad to see what is happening. I wish I knew how to post pictures on here. The picture of the fire from the mall is so scary.
8 posted on 06/26/2012 8:09:22 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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Terrible. So sorry for those folks.


9 posted on 06/26/2012 8:09:50 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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praying for your family.


10 posted on 06/26/2012 8:10:02 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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I’m so screwed-arriving in Colorado Springs for vacation July 8. Oh, well-as long as The Loop is serving those Grande Margaritas, I’ll be OK!

Prayers for everyone there. I have very fond memories of my last visit to CS.


11 posted on 06/26/2012 8:12:15 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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This is so sad. So many families affected because of this horrible arson. These fires are all arson.


12 posted on 06/26/2012 8:12:47 PM PDT by marygonzo
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I haven’t heard anything about the zoo. However, one of the evacuation sites is a Cheyenne Mtn school, so I would think that area is okay


13 posted on 06/26/2012 8:12:56 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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we are losing many houses tonight.

there is no end game at this time.

firefighters from pueblo and denver on the way, but it is a fire storm.


14 posted on 06/26/2012 8:13:27 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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They are calling it a firestorm of epic proportions


15 posted on 06/26/2012 8:14:51 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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zoo is ok right now


16 posted on 06/26/2012 8:15:13 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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If the Waldo Canyon fire has come this far down hill and east with the southeast winds caused by outflow boundaries from isolated and largely dry storm cells , what in hell has happened to Woodland Park?


17 posted on 06/26/2012 8:17:59 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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Thanks


18 posted on 06/26/2012 8:18:10 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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“what in hell has happened to Woodland Park?”

I don’t know. Maybe redlegplanner can answer that


19 posted on 06/26/2012 8:21:12 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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prevailing wind has kept it at the mouth of ute pass and north of hwy 24

As I understand the plan, if it gets into the pass, they are not going to try and stop it in the pass - i.e green mountain falls, cascade etc will be sacrificed.

they will try and block east / south of woodland park


20 posted on 06/26/2012 8:22:25 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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