Posted on 06/02/2018 10:37:10 AM PDT by rktman
Massive wildfires in Colorado and New Mexico have torched thousands of acres and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes. A blaze known as the 416 Fire in Colorado's La Plata County has burned 1,100 acres, US Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen told CNN on Saturday. The fire, about 15 miles outside the town of Durango, is 0% contained and has forced the evacuations of 1,500 residents, Mackensen said. No structures have been destroyed, he added
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I wonder if any of them started a fire?
I was talking to two guys this fall. One was lamenting the fires in his home state of California. The other blamed it on the drought caused by global warming. I pointed out that this was the wettest spring and summer they have had in over 25 years and their problem had been flooding 6 months earlier. And the California guy, a democrat, had to admit, it was the rain and not the drought that caused the abundance of plant growth which fueled the fires. The second guy thought a minute and shot back, well climate change caused the rain too.
With thinking like that, you can’t win. You just shake your head.
In that time, the fires became raging infernos and lasted for weeks.
All we got were excuses. The terrain was too rough and dangerous to send in fire fighters. There isn't enough money. There not enough equipment, etc.
It was terrible.
It was the narrow gauge train that started the fire.
We’re expecting rain tomorrow and that should help a lot.
I have always wanted to ride that train but always had something arise when I was there that prevented it.
Went over Molase (SP?) pass in a snow storm once going up to Silverton by road in an ill thought out adventure in January of ‘76.
Be hard to fight a fire up there the terrain is so dang steep in would be like Mann Gulch.
We went skiing in March at Mt. Bachelor in Oregon. There was a guy skiing there from the People’s Republic of California. We asked him why he came so far to ski when there were so many places in his own state. He said that because of global warming, there was no snow this year. I thought I remembered hearing about record snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada. That is the mindset that we are dealing with.
With all the bug killed pine, this ought to be something to watch.
The only good thing about this is that fire will burn that dead pine and if there is any aspen around, it will really re-generate that aspen.
We rode on that one on our honeymoon in 1986.
I was just up in Oregon on a logging job. You can tell the Fed forests from the rest. The fed forests look like crap.
NO! NO! NO! Two of my favorite spots on earth are on Fire! The Durango area, and Ute Park, Cimarron New Mexico!
Well, maybe it will clean the druggies out of Durango. Wonder if it will be as bad as the Lime Creek Burn of the 1879.
Well maybe they’ll set a back fire into the wrong wind direction and just watch it burn
And that is the leftists view of fire management
How would they know? (If they started a fire).
This is the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge. It used to be the Durango and Rio Grande Western.
The Cumbres and Toltec is also beautiful and it goes between Antonito, Colo. and Chama, NM.
Done the C&T years ago. Awesome little trip.
And Red Mountain is scarier than Molas.
I’ve been watching the big tankers fly back and forth. They’re dropping a lot of fire retardant.
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