sad. dont want to hear anyone on here complain about the snow ever again!

 

Please forgive my bluntness,..

If you catch the person responcible for starting all these fires, dont turn them in KICK HIS ***!

I cant believe someone that lives in our beautiful state would deliberately do this. I really wanna hurt this person (be it an accident or not).

If anybody that lives up and around that way needs anykind of help, please let me know. I am willing to help in anyway I can.

Good luck and stay safe!

 

New fire in Boulder today. I was on the Front Range yesterday and could see the CoSprings fire from 70 in Golden as you climb towards Lookout Mountain.

I want to echo what's been said on the thread so far: be extra careful. Smokers need to keep an old water bottle to toss butts in. Don't park your rig on top of grass. Carry a fire extinguisher. If you off road right now, carry an amateur handheld transceiver and report any fire that you see...know the local frequencies. Let's band together as a community and make sure that we keep Colorado safe from fires. That's the most important thing that I have to say...band together as a community. Be vigilant and use your local resources.

This is a beautiful place to live. Let's make sure that we are doing everything to mitigate fire damage and keep it from metasticizing into something much worse that will threaten our homes and the homes of loved ones. Perhaps we should start a thread on amateur radio frequencies in our respective counties.

Here in Eagle County:
147.345 (Vail Repeater)
146.610
Many others that are monitored, both by civilian, fire and police.

Please add your local resources to this thread, and as always, be safe and respectful of our beautiful state.

 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seriou...2834070?ref=ts

 

I love to support Colorado small businesses, but this is the wrong time and place to throw your advertising, man.

 

Since you obviously didn't read the message that is pinned to the top of the page I linked to....
Here's the message;
It's a plea for donations to the American Red Cross to help with the staggering cost incurred as a result of the devastating fires in and around Colorado Springs area and Colorado in general.

 

Sorry, man. I owe you an apology. I should've read it before attacking you.

 

Yeah the hayman fire. Its like 30 minutes away from my house lol

 

What's wrong with people? Why would you intentionally start a huge forest fire and endanger people's lives and property? WTF?

 

People are careless,selfish idiots. Its a horrible feeling watching your favorite camping spot burn to the ground.

 

I do property cleanup for some friends/neighbors in Gilpin County. I cut the lower limbs from trees, remove deadfall, rake up decades of dead material, and chop everything up so there's a nice supply of fuel stacked far from the house for the cold winter nights. There's SO much fuel available.

Colorado is an incredibly great place to live, especially in the mountains. A mountainside home with a view won't ever see a tornado, hurricane, or earthquake and probably won't go through a volcanic eruption or flood. But fire is an ominous, real threat.

I remember driving west on Harmony road in Fort Collins watching the apocolyptic, massive plume of smoke billow just above my girlfriend's parents' property. I asked her if she was prepared for the worst as we got closer.

When this great state was being built the logging industry had a vested interest in stamping out every fire that dared puff along the front range. The result is a hundred years of dead, dry material that you see Bear Grylls collect and ignite with a magnifying glass. Imagine how fires burned before anyone was here to stop them. They would just run their course and the burnt material would fertilize for new growth.

I drove up Rist Canyon a couple of days ago and where the ground is pitch black there are already blades of healthy green grass shooting up.

My point is that fires need to burn, but not houses. Fires are nature's way of cleaning itself up. If you live in an area that could burn, take a day with the family and collect all the dead branches around your property. Don't buy firewood- offer to clean up someone else's beetle kill. Hell, I'll lend ya the chainsaws. Invest in a metal roof that'll last a century. If you have trees near your house, keep them healthy and clean up their lower branches. Aspen trees are great- their sap is a natural fire retardant.