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Colorado’s deadly and destructive wildfire season continues with as many as a dozen blazes burning in recent days. Smoke from the fires has blanketed parts of the state in recent weeks and new NASA satellite imagery shows the smoke plumes from some of the blazes. Read the rest of this story and view the images on [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Wow! Check out this photo from the Colorado National Guard taken of the battle against the High Park Fire – an amazing perspective from above! You can view more of their photos on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/conationalguard/ “Nebraska National Guard crewmembers of Company C 2nd-135th General Support Aviation Battalion dump water from a Bambi bucket onto [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Smoke from High Park Fire and Springer Fire visible on latest satellite imagery. With gusty winds helping to fan the flames, the smoke plume from the High Park Fire is stretching far across the plains and can be seen on satellite as far as Logan County. To the south, the Springer Fire in Park County [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper today issued an executive order banning all open burning and the use of personal fireworks across the state. As the High Park Fire shows, conditions are tinder dry and while lightning was the cause of that blaze, man is often to blame for wildfires as well. “We can’t completely eliminate the [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Wildfires are a fact of life in the west burning hundreds of thousands of acres each year causing millions of dollars of damage and oftentimes claiming lives. With nearly half of the state’s land area comprising forest, Colorado… Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com
Click here for the rest of the story.An eerie image from the Colorado State Patrol – Two patrol cars guard a roadblock near the High Park Fire. Check out more in this slideshow from Examiner.com: http://exm.nr/NwCm9E
Click here for the rest of the story.Nice photo of a Conair Convair CV580 water dropping aircraft at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport getting some maintenance done before heading out for another drop on the High Park Fire. Conair is a Canadian firm and one of many helping fight the blaze. Image courtesy Thornton resident Mark Borland. View more images in the slideshow [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Smoke from the High Park Fire is moving south along the Front Range this morning causing hazy skies and the smell of smoke. The fire has now grown to 67+ square miles and officials have confirmed the first fatality from the blaze. Follow the link for the latest on the fire as well as new [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Amazing – and sad – images from the High Park Fire. Photo slideshow: http://exm.nr/LNZb4j
Click here for the rest of the story.Air quality will be degrading through the day today and become unhealthy for sensitive groups due to smoke and particulates from the High Park Fire. This means: “People with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion.” See here for the latest air quality conditions and forecast: http://www.thorntonweather.com/air-quality.php
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