Posted on 01/01/2022 11:29:05 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
After a fire ripped through Boulder County Thursday, displacing thousands of residents and burning more than 500 homes, Gov. Jared Polis, Brig. Gen. Laura Clellan, Adjutant General of Colorado, and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle boarded a National Guard helicopter to survey the damage. CPR photojournalist Hart Van Denburg accompanied them.
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I lived there until recently and I know right where that is, Hwy 93 and Eldorado Canyon Rd. That house and shed have been unoccupied for years. I wonder if homeless people got in there to get out of the wind.
I have lived in high fire danger areas most of my life. The first thing is you need a defensible space. It means getting out and doing the work. You are right about the shrubbery. Also, it is important to get curtains away from windows that might break out from the heat. This is a lesson learned, kind of sad.
I can’t help but question having tract homes so close together. Once one gets going it would be hard to stop it.
Thanks for the interesting info. Fortunately, I live in an area where we don’t have that problem, more likely a tornado which about forty years ago took the roof of our back porch away and skipped my neighbor but completely demolished the next house next to him. Luckily I don’t live in tornado alley, as I live in Illinois not too far from Iowa, but still from time to time we get this nasty storms. Take care, and thanks again for providing this interesting inf..
in re the 3 little pigs
My thoughts also. Seems they built all the houses and chimneys of wood.
I expect them soon to pass an ordinance banning fire within city limits.
...and another tax on residential construction to fund "climate change mitigation efforts".
Spanish Hills in Boulder was a posh residential subdivision with two and three acre lots. It had been there for over 30 years. It is just as devastated as the new "Dense-Pack" neighborhoods in Superior that were just built in the last two years at 8 houses per acre.
"Houses too close together" was not the critical factor in the outcome.
Maybe we should build in cement and brick, like most places in Europe and Asia. It is possible to do that and still make nice-looking residences.
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