Posted on 09/09/2010 4:36:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
BOULDER — City officials are urging residents who live west of Broadway in Boulder to prepare in the event high winds forecast for this evening carry embers from the Fourmile Canyon fire into city limits.
Winds may reach 50 mph out of the southwest, which caused city officials to warn residents living roughly from Spruce Avenue north to Dakota Ridge to be vigilant.
"There are concerns about the fire's path becoming less predictable and the possibility of spot fires from embers," City Manager Jane S. Brautigam said in a news release. "We are certainly hoping for the best, but as a city, we are doing the very things we would urge residents to do — staying vigilant and planning for the worst."
Read more: Boulder residents living west of Broadway urged to be watchful, prepared - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ci_16031957#ixzz0z4sd6C69
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Prayers are with you.
Any sign of Obama’s civilian army there ?
Hopefully the REAL militia, (i.e., your neighbors and friends) will be out with shovels, chainsaws and garden hoses removing dead brush and wetting down any embers that show up.
No Obama Army. Lots of volunteer and federal firefighters. Lots of homes lost in the foothills west of Boulder. I heard 190 homes lost on a radio report. Terrain is so rugged that normal ground machinery can’t operate. Only airplanes, helicopters or on foot. Reports that firefighters must watch for burning logs rolling down mountainsides.
Please keep us updated if you can. I’m sending up a prayer for you and your neighbors. We live in fire country too so I’ve got an inkling what you’re going through. Good luck and stay safe.
I have hoses with sprinkler and spray nozzle set up and a chain saw all gassed and ready.
Praying for you and your family from here in Colorado Springs.
We had 2 hours of slow, but steady rain yesterday afternoon. That really knocked the fire fown. It does not seem it spread much today. I am hearing that 10-11 square miles burned so far. The smoke is way down. The worry is that when the predicted wind increase happens it will dry everything and spread burning embers.
Thanks, we are south of the fire so still just watching closely. The people west of Boulder are really the ones that need prayers badly. From the warning area in Boulder I think they are worried the fire will come down Sunshine Canyon.
“Terrain is so rugged that normal ground machinery can’t operate”
The mountainsides are so steep in some places that if you missed your step you’d be dead. Some of the old mining roads will turn your hair white. I still don’t see how they got a team and wagon up some of them when it scared the crap out of me to get a motorcycle up there.
That was really amazing in its timing. It is not unusual to have one or two days of that kind of weather from mid-August to mid-Sept around here but more often than not it will just be socked in and if it rains at all it will be a light misting for twenty minutes or so. Two hours of straight down rain just at this time was near astounding.
I worked inthe national parks for ten years. Including the north rim of the grand canyon. I was in yellowstone in ‘88.
When you can smell the smoke, everybody becomes a firefighter. My prayers.
No fire breaks now. Not environmentally friendly is my guess.
We’ll continue watching with fingers crossed and pray for more rain.
No clouds to speak of. Wind picking up some, but still not too windy.
“I worked inthe national parks for ten years. Including the north rim of the grand canyon.”
How thick were the trees and brush there? I’ve noticed here (I moved here in 99’) the the undergrowth in many places was a definite fire hazard.
Most of the damage in Yellowstone was because of the thick layer of deadwood or ‘duff’ on the ground. The rules back then were ‘every smoke put out’. So the forests were not allowed to clear themselves with grass fires that didn’t crown.
The attitude within NPS has changes since then, In fact, there is a very large controlled burn near the grand canyon now.
But I don’t know who controls the land areas around where you are or what their policies are.
Keep a bag packed. keep it next to the door. keep cell phone charged. Back up computer, send files off site while you can. good luck.
“But I don’t know who controls the land areas around where you are or what their policies are.
Keep a bag packed. keep it next to the door. keep cell phone charged. Back up computer, send files off site while you can. good luck.”
It’s a patchwork. I’ve looked at the county land titles and I couldn’t make heads or tails of them between private land, county land and Federal (our) land (I’m a Gold panner).
I live in Longmont, Co. down on the plains about five miles from the 8000’ ‘foothills’ so I’m pretty safe.
I live right next to Roosevelt National Forest. They have been planning controlled burns for the last 12 years I have been here. None ever happened.
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