Latest on 4 wildfires burning on Colorado Front Range

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Published 2024-07-31
Several wildfires are burning throughout Colorado this week as the state continues to grapple with a prolonged stretch of dry, hot weather.

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All Comments (12)
  • @A3Kr0n
    Smokey says remember: Only YOU can prevent forest fires!
  • @xvsj-s2x
    Since when has it ever been safe to fight a fire. Interesting pattern of these fires 🤔
  • @ginogrey5039
    These news reporters are borderline cartoon characters.
  • @022Productions
    I got information on how the fire could’ve started. Who do I call?
  • @kevinbraun4617
    Human caused fires? When was the last year we had fires like this? 2020? What do these years have in common? Election years? Quite interesting to say the least.
  • @ropo772
    Did anyone check to see if the reporting officer was in posession of matches or a lighter? Great okace to start
  • @fu_247
    That must be her “news reporter” voice.
  • @hisimagenme
    You can tell most these people are not native Coloradians or if they are, they've smoked too much weed to remember... these fires are baby and laid down fast. "Almost 300 acres!" She exclaims! If the weather had been really that bad or Colorado really that dry (it's not) it would have been 13000 acres in one day. Reservoirs would have been so low they couldn't draw from them to fight the fires. The drama hype these camp fires have gotten is ridiculous. These were nice natural fire containment type fires that will likely help future fires from spreading so fast it makes your head spin. Everyone should be grateful in many ways that these fires happened this year (a wet Colorado) and when they did (weather). Sad to see it cost a life, never a good thing. But if you live in the mountains ANYWHERE you better be prepared to lose it all to a forest fire eventually - it's part of a natural process there and to expect fire crews and rescue purple to save you or your home from it at the risk of their lives is stupid. Only in the last 20-30 years have people been so self absorbed and dependant on insurance to fix life when it happens. Most the time humans have lived, they had no insurance, there were no hot spot fire rescue crews or planes that dropped retardant... or any thing of the sort. I don't know whose keeping records for Colorado but i grew up there (54 years old now) and the record highs are much higher than they say and Colorado is soaking wet compared to its drought days. It's always gotten 100 plus in summer and there is nothing new under the sun there, except the people who now live and run that state... it's gone to hades and it will never be the same again. Stop dredging drama and when you see smoke in the mountains stop acting like it's the end of the world. It's normal and if period don't want to lose their homes and animals to a fire, they better live on the plains where a fire is less likely to wipe them out. If in the mountains, it's going to happen, not if but when. Makes me sad to see such things, of course, but it can be prevented, by people not living where fire will reclaim its territory whether the weather is good or bad or people live there or not. People make bad decisions, not nature. There's a much needed reason for every single thing it does.