Disgusting.
I have family and friends in the area affected. Tonight a pre evacuation order was issued for the Huerfano valley...where I raised my children. My son in laws family lives there as does the great grandmother to some of my great grandma children. One of the Roadies for the old Fleetwood Mac band lives there. John Denver owned a farm in Malachite. He was my neighbor. The farm was also a college school where young folks learned how to raise animals, raise grains, raise food...the old fashioned way. They churned their own butter, and when having season came around, the hay was cut and gathered with horse drawn equipment. They also had a wood shop where exquisite doors and boardroom table tops were made from raw lumber. The kind Trump would order.
A lot of famous people either lived here, or visited here.
Remember Aussie Redman shampoo? Well, Redman has/had a ranch there. They raised Buffalo. And a little further up the road is a wolf sanctuary..a big deal wolf sanctuary.
Tanya Tucker’s cousin owned a little store/gas station that I almost purchased.
I got toeet the appolo 15 astronaut, Jim Erwin there when he waltzed into a little restaurant I was working in, only a year before he died.
Is anybody familiar with Chipita jewelry? She and her husband have a little house there, too.
One of the most humble and beautiful places on the face of the earth is going up in flames, and a ton of memories goes with it.
It’s infuriating that we aren’t being told a motive for what that arsonist did. But a lot of lives are destroyed as a result of it. Word is,(grapevine) he was burning trash. He’d been cited for it before.
So sad.