Colorado B.S. Thread

Several arrests were made in connection to said fire...both suspects are from Alabama. Beaver Creek fire has grown to 1000 acres. Another fire at I70 and 470. Fire near Coaldale forcing camper evacations.

 

They probably have a good defense... "we cain't didnt read those signs that said no leavin fires"

 

You made my wife crack up. She's still laughing.

 

What's so bad about these fires? The forests with all their dead fall and beetle kill need to burn.

Owning property in fire prone areas is a risk those people choose to make.

1,000 acres? It's close to 17,000. Been keeping a close eye on that one as it's an area I like to frequent. Also a heavy beetle kill area.

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4797/

 

I have to agree with brett. Fire is just nature's way of cleaning up the forests.

 

I agree but the fire being started by two careless idiots isn't natural. And three homes have been lost with more probably on the way. That sucks.

The forest these neighborhoods are built in shouldn't be overgrown or unhealthy. It should be mandatory that residents mitigate their own property as well as the entire neighborhood. In my opinion at lest.

 

The shit deal is the FS uses the fire as an excuse to close the roads that travel through the burn area. Then it takes an act of god to re-open them, if at all.

 

I won't disagree with you on those facts. I does suck that people lost their homes and idiots started the fire. Their are rules that people are suppose to but they think they are ok.

 

Insurance telling them that they are not covered since they didn't follow the rules would fix that attitude up real nice-like. But... feelers would be hurt, cant do that in 'Merica these days.

 

Anybody?

 

Sorry, I meant that it expanded by about 1000.

And as others have mentioned, I'm more aggravated by the supposed causes than anything else. I make a lot of mistakes, but they're backed by knowledge and affect me and me alone.

 

If land is open to the public, and the FS encouraged public land use, then camp grounds and their surrounding areas will have less brush and small timber to burn.

I remember camping as a kid and it being a PITA to find good wood for the fire pit. Responsible land use is how these types of fires are prevented, not by leaving the land untouched so hundred to thousands of acres can burn in hours... Unless that's what you want to happen.

 

I'm pretty sure it's financially impossible for some of these people to even get fire insurance in high risk areas.

 

And this is part of the reason I left LE. Massive companies supporting domestic terrorists.

 

I'm not saying those two guys aren't idiots, but decades of fighting and preventing fires has left the forests worse than the otherwise would be.

The forests need to burn one way or another.

Arguably the reason for the beetle epidemic too. Over population of pine trees.

 

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Pines are certainly over populated, as is everything in the forest. The trees become weak when stressed, which is a direct result of over population/introduction of invasives. If healthy they can fend off beetles, but not so much when weak (hence why the forests have a giant red eye sore that reaches from New Mexico to Canada).

I agree with you, Brett. It has to burn one way or another.

 

is this real? did they really put that up?

I got an email from them about a security breach and to change my password. But then again I never use pandora anymore.

 

There seem to be a lot of negative reviews about this already on the app store.

 

Deleted my account that I rarely used.

ad free Amazon prime music for the win!