The Marshall Fire: One year later

I lost everything and I’m 21 in college , lesson for people be grateful for what you have I’m tired of people not .

As an Australian living in a VERY fire prone area of the world, was amazed that the human tole of this fire was so low. One of the things I dread about in suburban environments is people getting trapped in the cars as they flee at the last minute. But the roads in these videos are wide and the housing estates relatively new, so large falling trees blocking roads does not seem to have been an issue. The typical houses shown in the videos burning, were often two story wooden building with complex roof profiles and verandas. They are just designed to catch embers. And of course large windows are great for daily living, but are a fatal weakness for houses in fire. Once the heat brakes the glass, the embers are free to enter and the entire house is usually gone within 30 minutes. Designing houses to resist fire is a complex business, but low profile and underground in the way to go. Wire mesh to prevent embers getting under houses and jammed into eves, is a must. The smoother you make the outer surface of the house, the better. Another thing is vegetation. Clear properties is not the way to go for ember attack. Fire resistant trees and shrubs catch embers. The last thing you want is an unobstructed hail of embers hitting your house like a blow torch. Vegetation around your home is NOT generally the cause of house destruction. Australian native pants and trees are infamous for their flammable oils, but it is RARE for trees around our house to be burnt. It is normal to find a house burnt to the ground surrounded by a garden that is intact. Buildings and cars are destroyed y ember attack, but the plants and trees all around survive. Its a radical idea, but rebuilding a home can take three directions: ignore the risks and rebuild what you had. Build a fire RESISTANT fortress, that may not be to your liking as a home, or build a ‘disposable’ home that you expect to loose, and build a fire resistant bunker, to preserve your valuables. The trick is, its not to save you. You leave, but important things MAY survive in the bunker. Its a lifestyle choice. A bunker can double as an office den, or a root cellar. Big topic!

Thank you for saving the pups!!

Fires like this is also hard on the firefighters fighting them, all the training they've had, people expecting them to save them and their property from the fire, which they do most of the time. Then a fire like this comes along and takes everything in it's path and there's nothing the firefighters can do to stop it!! As a 35 year Wildland Firefighter I know first hand how discouraging it is to lose even one structure, but to lose so many take a toll on the fire crews, they feel like they've let the citizens they swore to protect down.

Have a friend in Superior, on the east side, near Hodgson-Harris reservoir who’s house was luckily spared. Although it did get close, the whole apartment complex luckily stayed untouched. Was on FaceTime with him that morning when he decided to head to the store. Little did he know it had already started, he wasn’t able to return to his house for 5 days after due to the road closures and utilities being turned off. I unfortunately haven’t visited since due to work, but it’s so saddening seeing what happened to Superior, especially downtown and all the new construction and housing. The new hotel I planned to stay at unfortunately burned down as well.

I live about halfway between where the Marshall fire started and the Middle Fork location. That was one terrifying day. The area was a tinder box and the wind was insane. My whole building was shaking and I could hear objects hitting it. I watched the coverage online most of that day and night, hoping the forecast snow would come soon. I can't even put into words what it's like to see familiar neighborhoods burning down just a few miles away, wondering about people you know and worrying that a tiny spark could set your own place on fire at any moment.

My house was a victim in that fire In superior, it was the scariest moments of my life as I was trapping in my home with no car

And literally a foot of snow a day later. Just so unfortunate.

My best friend was actually lived in Boulder Colorado and I was sooooo scared when the fire was going on

When you said that it was December I was appalled... Words mean little... What does one say... 🇿🇦 May this Just speechless...

Just first 75 seconds hard to watch for this fire evacuee☹️ Will try to watch the rest some other time

Team work 🙏💙🙏💙🙏 thank u and looks frightening

I remember what I was doing that day. taking a load of steel product from Longmont down to I think it was the Ridgegate apartments across from the Ridgegate RTD station. I saw the start of the fire about 11:30am or so while I was on I-25. on my way back, the smoke was THICKER and once I got back to the shop, I found out what had happened

Living through this fire - some 30,000 evacuating en masse, mostly east - has caused me to rethink the role of autonomous vehicles and TaaS - transportation as a service. Can't imagine evacuating with just small backpack on my bicycle ☹️

How the eff does this not have 20 million views?

Sad sad day

Its part of my job to design the new infrastructure for the area that the marshall fire affected.

I grew up in Colorado. I'm 53. I lived anywhere from S Denver, Thornton, Arvada, Lafayette, Del Camino to Firestone CO. There were droughts just as bad, but no sparks, winds but no sparks, that's why it had never happened before, God watched over and this time He let the sparks fly, so people would become people again. That's what these tragedies do, they turn hermitizing, me me me, people into sacrificial connecting people. He let's us remember every once and a while, and He protects far more people than we deserve. No one learns from this stuff... it's always the same - God gets no mention and yet everyone cried out His name, everyone, no matter what they say they believe, in the end "oh God, Jesus, dear Lord" those words come from every set of lips. Not "oh budda, sweet. Mohammed!" But God, Jesus... wake up people. Could it happen again, in another town or city anywhere, yep. Should it have happened far more often, yep. Will anyone learn? Well if history is the teacher, you already know the answer. Likely your either rationalizing or mocking this as you read, or... maybe... just maybe... you're thinking. Thinking about it... don't let this moment go if that's you. Turn towards this God, seek Him like you've never sought anything in your life, and be saved, from more than fires, floods, tornadoes, terrible tragedies, but from self absorbed blind living. You'll stop believing everything the TV crew says and start really knowing the truth. This was very sad, no just because of the fire and its cost, but because people will go on without ever really knowing why these things happen.

Ive seen fires like this, hight, hot, fast. Fortunantly for me when i saw these they were racing up hills and mountains away from the few houses in the area. But if people had lived up there they wouldn't have had time to get away.

Powerlessness😢