“Compound that with the enviros that won’t allow brush clearing or other common sense fire abatement measures and that’s why this scenario plays out year after year across the West.
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Don’t lump Colorado in with the whackjobs of Kali. We allow and even demand fire abatement measures to include cutting anything and everything around structures.
We, of course, have many who do not protect their buildings from fire and their homes and buildings burn but that is called “freedom”; they are free not to and without complaint from any of us. It is not our property. We’ll help save their property and even help them rebuild because that is what living in forested areas is about.
“Don’t lump Colorado in with the whackjobs of Kali. We allow and even demand fire abatement measures to include cutting anything and everything around structures.”
Yeaaaaaaaaa...you do a bang-up job in CO...
Hayman Fire Disaster - Pike National Forest, Colorado - June, 2002
“The premiere fire that year was the Hayman which burned 138,000 acres and 133 homes in 20 days. It still holds the record for being Colorado’s largest wildfire ever. Most of the fire (72%) stayed on the Pike National Forest south and west of Denver and northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Enough fire escaped national forest lands to cause significant private damage.”
And don’t bother to ask how many CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS VOLUNTEERED TO GO TO COLORADO AND WENT TO FIGHT THE HAYMAN FIRE!
“Don’t lump Colorado in with the whackjobs of Kali.”
Or how ‘bout these...
“6,500 acre wildfire that broke out near Colorado Springs on March 3, 2009”
“Wildfires broke out in Boulder County, Colorado, on the afternoon of January 7, 2009”
“On April 15, 2008, wildfires in Colorado caused the evacuation of the towns of Ordway and Carbondale, as well as a voluntary evacuation of Fort Carson. Three people died in the fires.”
I suggest you keep your “Kali” wise ass remarks to yourself.