Forest Fire on White Mountain

[IMaDick]

Live webcam view from Ski Apache, the area is being soaked by the snow making machines the fire is just above it on the Mountain.



http://www.skinewmexico.com/Web_Cams/Mai...ebcam.html

[username]

Good use of the snow making machines.

[IMaDick]

Fire is well over 26,000 acres lots of homes burned, they still don't have any control of it.

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/weather/wildfire...p+Stories)

[Ma Huang Sor]

When the Jemez burned up in Bandelier back in the 70's it was a very similar situation. The Jemez burned forever it seemed. Unbelieveable.

[Lady Cop]

some photos here of Colorado fires. one poor woman has burned to death in her cabin.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/us/colorad...?hpt=hp_t3


"The hope for containment today, I will tell you, is tenuous," incident commander Bill Hahnenberg said Monday.
Flames jumped some 20 feet in the air and dry trees, brush and grass fueled the blaze. In the ashes of one home, authorities said they found the body of a 62-year-old woman Monday.

The woman was identified as Linda Steadman by family members.

"Linda Steadman, mother, grandmother, sister and wife perished in the cabin she loved," the family said in a written statement.

Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith says 62-year-old Linda Steadman's home received two emergency notifications after the fire started this weekend, and a firefighter who tried to get to her home to warn her was chased out by flames.

[Maggot]

Live webcam view from Ski Apache, the area is being soaked by the snow making machines the fire is just above it on the Mountain.



http://www.skinewmexico.com/Web_Cams/Mai...ebcam.html

That fat lady has been in the chem toilet for 15 min............Dick go save her!! She is in the pond and park area.

[IMaDick]

Live webcam view from Ski Apache, the area is being soaked by the snow making machines the fire is just above it on the Mountain.



http://www.skinewmexico.com/Web_Cams/Mai...ebcam.html

That fat lady has been in the chem toilet for 15 min............Dick go save her!! She is in the pond and park area.

Pirate party is cancelled, the lake is closed at least until the end of july.

I will be rescheduling the party for the fall.

[Maggot]

Thats mighty white of ya.

[IMaDick]

Thats mighty white of ya.

or I could relocate it to a different lake?

Maybe Havasu?

[Maggot]

Thats mighty white of ya.

or I could relocate it to a different lake?

Maybe Havasu?

How bout Havadrink.

[IMaDick]

Thats mighty white of ya.

or I could relocate it to a different lake?

Maybe Havasu?

How bout Havadrink.

Does anyone with a brain have any suggestions?

The fire is at 36-38,000 acres with more than 40 homes burned.

[Jimbone]

I recommend this:

[Cracker]

Pirate party is cancelled, the lake is closed at least until the end of july.

I will be rescheduling the party for the fall.

You could just do a Pirate Bus like OBK...

[Lady Cop]

DENVER – Additional crews were arriving Saturday at a wildfire in northern Colorado that has scorched about 85 square miles and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. Meanwhile, local authorities are
focusing on another concern -- looting. SHOOT TO KILL!!

The High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins surpasses the Fourmile Canyon wildfire, which destroyed 169 homes west of Boulder in September 2010.

Fire information officer Brett Haberstick said Saturday that more than 1,500 personnel are working on Fort Collins-area fire. The lightning-caused blaze, which is believed to have killed a 62-year-old woman whose body was found in her cabin, was 20 percent contained. The fire's incident commander said full containment could be two to four weeks away.

Haberstick said hot and dry conditions were expected to continue, but crews have made progress in containing a 200-acre spot fire that erupted Thursday afternoon north of the Cache La Poudre River, a critical line of defense against northward growth.

"We're hopeful that we will be able to contain it today, but that will be determined by Mother Nature," Haberstick said.

Firefighters have extinguished other incursions north of the river, but the most recent one appeared to be more serious.

National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin said some rain was expected in the fire zone Saturday evening, but it will not be enough to put the fire out.

"We need a rain that will really last all day," he said. "But it's better than dry wind at this point."

The fire was reported June 9 and has since raced through large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service, met with fire managers in Fort Collins on Saturday and said "fighting this fire is going to require us to be aggressive, persistent and also patient.

"We're going to continue to work to make our forests more resilient. We're going to continue to ensure that adequate resources are provided for fighting fires and we are going to continue to make sure that we encourage appropriate stewardship of our forests," he said.

Vilsack praised Congress for allowing the government to contract additional aircraft -- particularly heavy tankers -- to fight wildfires across the West. But he called on lawmakers for budget certainty to help plan for future fires.

Vilsack is scheduled to hold a news conference with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell in Albuquerque on Sunday,

As firefighters try to get the upper hand on the blaze, which has burned large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land, local authorities have dispatched roving patrols to combat looting.

Deputies arrested 30-year-old Michael Stillman Maher of Denver on Sunday on charges including theft and impersonating a firefighter. The sheriff's department said Maher was driving through the fire zone with phony firefighter credentials and a stolen government license plate.

His truck was later spotted near a bar in Laporte, and investigators say they found a firearm and stolen property in the vehicle.