Summer is barely a week old and yet hundreds of thousands of acres in the West have burned causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. As Colorado and New Mexico cope with record-setting disasters, many are asking questions about the lack of a competent air tanker fleet after a decade of decline. Read more on Examiner.com about why President Barack Obama may face tough questions when he comes to Colorado tomorrow.
The only Department of Defense wildfire fighting team is being deployed to aid in the battle against wildfires ravaging Colorado. The hot shot crew from Vandenberg Air Force Base is expected to be on the lines of the Waldo Canyon Fire near the Air Force Academy. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com and check out the amazing slideshow of the fire approaching the academy.
Just days into summer Colorado was already experiencing a devastating season of wildfires. On Tuesday the fires became an inferno forcing more than 30,000 residents across the state to evacuate ahead of the flames. Get the latest on the Waldo Canyon Fire, Flagstaff Fire and more on Examiner.com
Colorado’s deadly and destructive wildfire season continues with as many as a dozen blazes burning in recent days. Smoke from the fires has blanketed parts of the state in recent weeks and new NASA satellite imagery shows the smoke plumes from some of the blazes. Read the rest of this story and view the images on Examiner.com.
June 2012 is certain to go down in the history books as one of the warmest on record and June 25 will be one of the big reasons why. At 3:34pm the mercury at Denver's official…
With wildfires scorching hundreds of thousands of acres across the western United States, the Air Force announced that it would be deploying more of its aircraft in support of the battle against the blazes. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com
Colorado’s deadly and dangerous fire season continues to worsen as a new fire burning west of Colorado Springs rages out of control. The Waldo Canyon Fire has grown to more than 2,000 acres in less than 24 hours and forced the evacuation of the entire town of Manitou Springs.
Wildfires are a fact of life in the west burning hundreds of thousands of acres each year causing millions of dollars of damage and oftentimes claiming lives. With nearly half of the state’s land area comprising forest, Colorado…
In only 48 hours a wildfire burning west of Fort Collins, Colorado has virtually exploded to encompass an area of more than 57 square miles. The High Park Fire is burning out of control with no containment as thousands of…
For the second day in a row Mother Nature visited her wrath on northeastern Colorado. Severe thunderstorms on Thursday once again brought hail, damaging wind and tornadoes to the region.Storms began to form east of the Denver metro area…
