this wildfire started around 1p.m. yesterday in the mountains west of colorado springs, co. They have issued mandatory evacuations for all of manitou springs, green mountain falls, and cascade. They also have evacuated 2 subdivisions. This sucks and adds to the 100df temps that we are in now, because of all the smoke in the air. Our is stupid dry right now and this isn't helping. This is the Waldo Canyon fire.
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Are you going to have to evacuate?? I hope all is well for you, your family, and your trees.

I live on the east side of town, so it will have to burn the whole city before it gets to us. I live about 25 miles from the fire, tho. We are all hoping we don't get a big wind storm (as they call it here). If that were to happen, it would diffinately make it to town. I couldn't even see the mountains this morning because of the smoke.
The sad thing to me atm is the thousands of amazing trees that have burned. There were a lot of awsome natural bonsais up there. That whole area was protected, so no one could collect trees there.

Thanks for your concern.
They just said animals are going nuts all over town because of the smoke.

my sister and husband lived outside of boulder years back.she woke up one morning and thought it was snowing in july they ended up with an inch of ash on the ground just crazy...fires like this have happend for centuries some trees survive the fires others die to make room for the next generation its sad but its the circle of life...hope the best for you and yours be safe

I think that would have been the Hayman fire. It was the largest fire in colorado's written history. The Hayman fire burned so hot it distroyed everything, it took 2 years before weeds would even grow. The only trees that survived were on the edges. There is another fire burning up by Boulder now, it is at 82,000 acres. They said on the news last night that half of the countries firefighters are in colorado working wildfires. The sad thing is most of these fires have been started by idiots. One was started by somebody shooting a propane tank.

The fire is now at 6100 acres. The wind changed and is now on the northwest edge of town. It is now burning houses to the ground. This is the worst thing that has happened in this city.

geeze its pushing 10,000 acres that is just a huge piece of land i think i would cry if i saw that kind of destruction in person ...destruction as far as the eye can see

Praying for you guys out there, keep safe