A wind-driven wildfire prompted authorities to evacuate all 1,100 residents from the southeastern Colorado town of Ordway on Tuesday, while a second fire in the western Colorado mountains ...
A third wildfire had burned more than 1,000 acres on Fort Carson and a forced a lockdown of the gates to the Army post near Colorado Springs.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/15/residents-flee-wildfires/
On July 6, 1994, 14 wildland firefighters lost their lives when a wind shift resulted in a "blow-up" fire condition that trapped them on the uphill and downwind position from a fire on Storm King Mountain, just outside Glenwood Springs.
The fourteen firefighters included smokejumpers Don Mackey, Roger Roth, and James Thrash; Prineville Hot Shots John Kelso, Kathi Beck, Scott Blecha, Levi Brinkley, Bonnie Holtby, Rob Johnson, Tami Bickett, Doug Dunbar, and Terri Hagen; and helitack crew members Richard Tyler and Robert Browning.
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Oh I wouldn’t be too dismissive of smaller fires or attempt to minimize them. Firefighters died in Colorado in both the South Canyon and Hyman fires, both smaller than the Rodeo-Chediski you brought up(and I remember that as I was there), and in my neck of the woods the 46,000 acre Cerro Grande caused $1 billion in damages as in swept through Los Alamos.