Monday, June 18, 2012

High park fire

  • DENVER — Crews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour have been screaming across the High Park fire forcing helicopters that have been helping to fight the blaze west of Fort Collins to stay on the ground, and prompting a number of new evacuations.
  • (Denver Post)
  • The legend to this map reads that the darkest area is where the fire started that first weekend. The rest is whats burned since that point.
  • (Salon)
  • LARIMER COUNTY - The High Park Fire is estimated at 56,480 acres, with 45 percent containment.
  • (High Park Fire near Fort Collins now 56,480 acres, 45 percent containment, 181 homes destroyed, 1 dead - 9News)
  • LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. -- Ten days after the High Park Fire blew up in Larimer County, the fire has burned 56,480 acres and is 45 percent contained.
  • (Denver Channel)
  • FORT COLLINS — Peggy Sanchez knew she was wearing-out her welcome at a cousins house and Jim Bruce and Jerri Wimberly were running out of money staying at a hotel.
  • (Denver Post)
  • Because of temperatures well into the 90s and gusty winds up to 30 mph, new evacuations have been ordered in the High Park Fire area west of Fort Collins.
  • (Examiner)
  • The firefighting force has steadily increased and by Sunday night officials said about 1,750 personnel were working on the fire, which was sparked by lightning and was 45 percent contained.
  • (Time)
  • The High Park Fire burns earlier this week in the Roosevelt National Forest west of Fort Collins, Colo.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • A Denver man found in the High Park Fire area with a stolen government license plate and phony firefighter credentials was arrested this morning with stolen property and a gun, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
  • (Desert Sun)

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