Monday, September 6, 2010

Boulder's Forest is on FIRE

This morning we went to a playdate with Jacob, Campbell and Joanna. Her husband Alex was in Boulder for some shooting practice (it was Labor day, a holy day and everybody was off of work) and when he came back at around noon, he told us that there was a fire in one of Boulder's canyons and the big, I mean BIG cloud that we see was of the fire - in an otherwise blue sky.

And this is what we still saw in the late afternoon out of our bedroom windows




Currently no people injured, a fire truck was a victim of the fire, but all people save. They even ended up closing the emergency shelters because obviously everybody evacuated could find shelter at friend's and family's homes!
They even opened up the Longmont County Fair grounds for livestock in danger (cows, horses..) and the shelter for taking on dogs and cats...what a disaster!
Obviously, the fire was started by a vehicle bumping into a propane gas tank!

2 comments:

Jim and Cindy said...

Well holy cow...you see all kinds of amazing stuff from your side of the street! I had no idea that was going on behind us until it was PAST us.

Marion in Colorado said...

You are just to busy being pregnant - LOL