Posted on 06/27/2012 8:53:05 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
(CBS/AP) WOODLAND PARK, Colo. - A stubborn and towering wildfire jumped firefighters' perimeter lines and doubled in size in the hills overlooking Colorado Springs, forcing frantic mandatory evacuation notices for more than 9,000 residents, destroying an unknown number of homes and partially closing the grounds of the sprawling U.S. Air Force Academy.
Heavy smoke and ash billowed from the mountain foothills west of the city. Bright yellow and orange flames flared in the night, often signaling another home lost to the Waldo Canyon Fire, the No. 1 priority for the nation's firefighters.
Interstate 25, which runs through Colorado Springs, was briefly closed to southbound traffic Tuesday. All told, officials said, evacuation orders affected as many as 32,000 residents. Fire information officer Rob Dyerberg said Wednesday the fire grew by more than 12 ½ square miles late Tuesday to 24 square miles.
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Feel the love from Democratic underground. Warning - may require brain disinfectant and keyboard sterilization.
Wildfire In GOP Libertarian Bastion Colorado Springs
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I violently object to way these tragic blazes are referred to as “wildfires.” These look to be intentionally set, but nobody wants to say or do anything meaningful about it.
“Feel the love from Democratic underground”
Ok, now that just makes me sick to my stomach....
Colorado better begin “controlled fires” again....see what happens when you have wacky environmentalists try to tell you what is right....Hopefully this will teach Colorado and other states a valuable lesson. Of course, that is doubtful since they will probably say “Well after it is all said and done, it wasn’t that bad”....stupid liberals!!!!
Sounds like FREEPERS on SOME threads when talking about liberals.....Politics are the same but just opposite sides of the spectrum. I guess the people in Colorado voted to cut the firefighters and now there are not enough.....I do believe those extra firefighters that they cut would probably be pretty helpful about now.
Thank God that no eagles eggs were affected by DDT 15 or 20 years back when this all started.
Can you imagine the extent of the horror the environazis were able to stop.
This fire is the result, but it’s a small price to pay.
Written from my home, which is just outside the pre-evacuation zone. We’re packed and ready to go at moments notice.
I keep reminding myself, thin eagle eggs, or my home, which to chose, which to chose?
I noticed, much to my astonishment, some of the follow-on comments were rather sympathetic. An amazing development for the DU crowd.
I do expect — once all the fires are put out — for Air Force One to fly into Colorado Springs and belch out Obama, who will oh-so-heroically show himself to the weary subjects and pronounce “We Will Rebuild!!”
Forest Service lawsuits from by environmentalists brought on part of this — no road building, no logging, no thinning of small trees, no harvest of pine beetle killed trees. And after the fires no salvage of burned trees leaving them there to accumulate until the next hot, dry season occurs. Romney could argue healthy forests would prevent these disasters, irrespective of whether he believes the cause was drought caused by us nasty industrialized humans.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2899957/posts?page=5#5
Wasn't there some jihadi website calling for range fires to be deliberately set this summer across the western US? I thought I remembered reading that. Funny, nobody's talking about that, now.
Colorado already does controlled burns. One of them up north wasn't put out and flared into a wildfire. No fault of the state however. Same situation for an individual and he would be buried beneath the jail.
Hopefully this will teach Colorado and other states a valuable lesson.
It hasn't taught dumbasses like you anything, it will have no effect on our libs either.
I was in this area last year cutting Christmas trees. Not overgrown, little brush, it is just very dry and hot here and even without fire the winds in the summer can be monstrous.
Good luck. I will pray for your home and family to be safe.
Dumbasses like me???? HAHA....I am not the one stupid enough to be going through these fires and voting to cut firefighters.....Complete idiots like you would be going through this rightfully so.
The Forest Service is the agency that is responsible for training and coordinating firefighters from all over the country to fight those fire. A wildland firefighter can come from any place in the US as long as they’ve been certified and have signed up.
Thanks, we have an interstate, I-25, between us and the fire, which is only a few miles from us right now.
It will be very difficult for the fire to jump the interstate. Difficult, not impossible, so we’re prepared.
CO already does 'controlled burns'. However, having an IQ north of 85 automatically disqualifies a person from joining the Forest Service, and they do the 'controlled burns'. One earlier this year was a 'controlled burn' during high winds, up to 95 mph. You can figure out the rest.
Yeah, dumbasses like you. The acreage burning out west is bigger than most east coast states. The 'idiots' voting to cut firefighters can't vote to cut firefighters from the USFS. This state is 8 times larger than the east coast dump occupied by know-nothings dopes like yourself. The feds own most of it, the Fed land was burning, now it has come down into private land. Again, for the stupid east coasters like you, Coloradans can't 'vote to cut' federal firefighters.
Bush’s fault.
Oh well....big whoop. I am not involved. I am 100 percent glad to be on the East Coast!!!!! No fires around me....
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