[Severa]

I have friends in eastern CO and they're sitting on the edge of their seats to see if their fires are heading over that way.

What I'd like to know from the AZ Freepers is this: It's been widely reported that the CO fires were started by that dumbass Forest Service bitch that needs to be flung right square in the middle of what she created, but have the officials been able to figure out what caused the AZ fires??

[mewzilla]

Supposedly one of the AZ fires was caused by a lost camper/hiker trying to draw attention by lighting a signal fire. Don't know about the other.

I will tell you this, though. We just got back from a visit to NM, with a stop in AZ. And I can't tell you the number of idiots we saw throwing ciggy butts out the windows of their vehicles. Those started at least a couple of brush fires while we were out there. You'd think folks would use their noggins. Sigh...

[KirklandJunction]

What on earth does the Colorado fire start have to do with.......

Chedeski fire: yes. Rodeo fire: nothing public

[dittomom]

All they are saying about the first fire (Rodeo) is that it is manmade and there is an ongoing investigation. The fire officials are getting sick of answering the question because the investigation is not in their hands - they are working on fighting the fire. The fire started near the rodeo grounds so that's why they're calling it the Rodeo fire.

As others have said, the second fire was started by a lost female hiker who set a signal fire to get the attention of a news helicopter. Noone was prepared to put out the fire and it got out of control.

Whoever started those fires is not gonna have too many friends around here.