Posted on 06/30/2018 8:56:35 PM PDT by 11th_VA
TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) - A man was arrested on Saturday on charges of starting a forest fire in Colorado that has destroyed structures and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes in one of dozens of wildfires raging across the drought-hit U.S. southwest.
Jesper Joergensen, 52, was taken into custody for suspected arson that started the Springs Fire, the most active of around 10 blazes in Colorado, the state hardest hit by fires, according to Costilla County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
Joergensen is not a U.S. citizen and will be handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement once he has faced arson charges, said a Costilla County detention officer. The officer could not immediately say what nationality Joergensen held.
The fire has scorched over 38,000 acres (15,378 hectares) between the towns of Fort Garland and La Veta in southern Colorado, forcing more mandatory evacuations of homes and ranches on Saturday in a mountainous area of public and private land. The fire continued to grow, fueled by temperatures in the mid 80s Fahrenheit (27 Celsius) and had zero percent containment as of Saturday afternoon.
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Embrace one-worldism, no borders and multicukturalism. I guess that means less brush clogging the landscape.
Please explain to me where in my answer to you that I “discounted the problem”(of expensive trash removal). Your reply mystifies me.
I never said you personally did discount it, but some would.
Yeah, he must have just been there for the weed.
Drives my friends in CO nuts.
It’s also disturbing that due to federal fire (not)fighting policy, the largest aerial slurry bomber in the world sits at the Colorado Springs Airport and the Forest service refuses to use it on even a single fire.
Ive heard that before. I wonder why
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