Posted on 04/15/2008 2:38:46 PM PDT by george76
Dozens of homes have been evacuated and a 5-mile stretch of Colorado 82 in western Colorado has been closed due to heavy smoke from a brush fire.
The 100-acre brush fire is burning at 1265 County Road 100, and is threatening several homes and a school, said Tanny McGinnis, spokeswoman for the Garfield County Sheriff's Office.
She said a horse farm and a private school have been evacuated. Two buildings have been damaged and one person has been transported with injuries...
Firefighters from Carbondale, Basalt and Glenwood are at the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
The Olney Springs emergency vehicles had rolled out about 3:45 p.m. Bruce DeVore rode in a firetruck behind his son’s and Schwartz’s firetruck.
“From what I understand, the smoke was so bad on the highway they couldn’t see,” Deb DeVore said. “They could see his taillights and they were following him. All of a sudden the taillights disappeared and they slowed down. The road was no longer there.”
The fire had gone under the bridge and burned it.
“The visibility was so bad that the bridge had collapsed ahead of them and they didn’t even know it,” Crowley County Coroner Karen Tomky said.
She met with both families Tuesday night.
Schwartz, who was single, was raising his two eldest boys and had shared custody of his two youngest sons. Toni Schwartz said the older boys were at their house in Fowler because their school had been evacuated. They didn’t know how long their dad would be at the fire.
“The boys were pretty torn up,” Toni Schwartz said. “Their dad was their whole world.”
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/16/two-prison-workers-among-dead-ordway-fire/
Thank you for the update.
I had to check just to make sure it wasn't.
I taught archery at the Boy Scout camp on Little Grassy Lake, during the summer camp, for more than a couple of years.
Just announced on the radio at 4:00MST that evacuation orders have been lifted for all three fires. Radar shows that Carbondale should have seen light snow for much of the day. Snow also in the Colorado Springs area and looks to be snowing just north of Ft Carson.
Some places may get a foot of snow.
I hope they get snow where they need it. The snow seems pretty wet. Here, there is about 4 inches of new snow in the last six hours.
Thank you, praying for rain or snow or whatever it takes to get these fires out. Very sad to hear of the fatalities, also.
We were driving down 115 after the Ft Carson fire and saw a bald Coyote run across the road. Must have had all his hair burned off.
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