Friday, March 30, 2012

Colorado wildfire

  • A Jefferson County fire spokeswoman acknowledged this afternoon that about 12 percent of homeowners within the Lower North Fork Fire zone did not receive automated emergency calls.
  • (Denver Post)
  • CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Mary Thuente says she never got an automated call warning her to flee her home as a wildfire spread over the mountains southwest of Denver, but her neighbor did.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Dramatic footage of one Colorado family's escape from a fast-moving wildfire captures a terrifying trip to safety.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • JEFFERSON COUNTY — The Jefferson County Sheriffs Office announced at a noon news conference that some residents of the area evacuated because of the Lower North Fork Fire will be allowed to go back to their homes today.
  • (Denver Post)
  • Firefighters were hoping to make more progress Thursday on a deadly wildfire that torched more than 4,000 acres in a mountainous area near Denver.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • the child says, then, urgently, Why is she stopping? Kaleb Gulick, 13, shot the video in the car with his father as his family, in two cars, fled a deadly Colorado wildfire that crept too close to their home earlier this week.
  • (KTLA.com)
  • Colorado has seen its fair share of forest fires blown up to disastrous proportions by high winds. One of the most destructive was the Hayman wildfire in June, 2002. It burned 100,000 acres and dozens of homes.
  • (Denver Post)
  • CONIFER, Colo. (AP) — Displaced residents are pressing fire officials for permission to return to their homes or salvage whats left after a wildfire charred a six-square-mile area.
  • (KSN.com)

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