The Black Forest Fire had fires poping up all over the place, not jumping, but new fires, with no apparent origin.
Closing off areas by naming them a pre-evac zone seemed to stop that.
My own thoughts are that this was set in response the ElPaso County sheriff starting the civil rights lawsuit against the state of CO for passing the two unconstituional gun laws.
That suit currently has 58 of the 63 elected sheriffs signed on.
Nothing more than get-even-with-em-ism by the Leftists, probably even local Leftists.
In 1998 we had a fire at the Vail Ski Resort with and estimated $12 million. The fire destroyed three buildings and four chair lifts. Four Ecoterrorists were indicted for these fires. So, there is history of this sort of thing.