I spent two days hiking and camping within Estes Park, and the memories from that, over 20 years ago, were priceless.
This fire grew from 19,000 acres Wednesday night to 125,000 acres Thursday morning. It exceeded the worst case scenarios of the emergency response people.
Grew at one point of 6,000 acres per hour.
Grand Lake was almost lost but I hear they saved it.
The Winding River Ranch just north of Grand Lake was destroyed