Colorado wildfire forces evacuation orders for 19,000 people

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities issued an evacuation order for 19,000 people Saturday near a fast-moving Colorado wildfire in rolling hills south of the college town of Boulder, not far from the site of a destructive 2021 blaze that leveled more than 1,000 homes.

The wildfire had grown to 123 acres (50 hectares) by late afternoon with no containment, according to the Boulder Office of Emergency Management. Evacuation orders covered 8,000 homes.

Protected wildland was burning near the Table Mesa neighborhood and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder police said on Twitter. Authorities have called it the NCAR fire.

The fire is in an area where a blaze destroyed 1,000 homes last year in unincorporated Boulder County and suburban Superior and Louisville.



Smoke billows from a wildfire Saturday, March 26, 2022 in Marshall, Colo. a few miles south of Boulder, Colo. About 1,200 Colorado residents have been ordered to evacuate due to a fast-moving wildfire near the site of a destructive 2021 blaze, Boulder police said Saturday. (AP Photo/Dave Zelio)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-science-environment-evacuations-boulder-9390f3860366405e09ec5c58ef9a057d

[SheltieLover]

1. Stay safe, All! Please check in if you are in CO!

[DENVERPOPS]

3. My opinion is

if Colorado doesn't get a ton more snow, or a ton of constant rain this spring, this will be the worst wildfire season on record in the Colorado Rockies, and especially in the front range mountains from Boulder North. The forests are still a little dry from last year not receiving much precipitation, outrageously high temps, and unusual high winds. We are at 80 degrees in Denver today and for two more days.

What does that tell you??????????

I hope I am wrong, but the conditions are all there for many "RED FLAG" warning days ahead.............

Colorado ordered one smaller state of the art firefighting plane last fall. It will get here in 2023?????

Last year, Colorado put down a retainer for use of a 747 tanker based in Colorado Springs in case of a wildfire.
The amount of water that Tanker carries and dumps on a fire is breath taking.......
For some reason, it didn't get assigned to any of the Wildfire's in Colorado last year.....not sure why........

[uncle ray]

4. FWIW the global supertanker is no more.

i'm not sure if they were on the up and up in the first place. i know where their headquarters was, and someone would come by about once a quarter to retrieve the mail.

[DENVERPOPS]

5. Rumor was

that it was in constant use all last summer in California......Maybe they decided to move their plane and headquarters out there????

[uncle ray]

6. no, it's been in the news that they are done.

local media floating ideas like use the plane to transport PPE for covid...obviously this was months ago.

[DENVERPOPS]

7. I knew that having a plane like that

was too good to be true. One pass with a plane like that on our current fire, and they could make one drop and game over........

I wonder if Colorado got it's retainer back??????????

And thank you for the updated info..........

[Duppers]

12. GLOBAL WARMING, caused by humans

For the naysayers here, refute these scientists...

Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans


The Causes of Climate Change
https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

GOOD LUCK, BOULDER. I loved your beautiful city/country side.

[locks]

2. Once again

the fires are trying to overtake our beautiful Boulder. But thankfully the hot winds sent the fire from Eldorado Canyon where many were hiking, up the mountain and has not come in town yet. Called the NCAR fire but our very special government agency NCAR has been spared. 19000 people evacuated but no homes destroyed yet. University of Colorado South being evacuated but thankfully CU's on spring break. Lucky to have some planes and great firefighters and hope to control it and save us from the terrible destruction of the Marshall fire which happened only three months ago. Hoping we can welcome soon our many visitors who come to ski, hike, study and enjoy the best place in our country to live.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. LOL The problem is that

they come to ski, hike, study. They love it (who wouldn't) and they move here.
I have not seen an exodus here like this since the 60's when John Denver was spewing Rocky Mountain High........
Our inflation is out of sight, rentals are outrageous, home prices are ludicrous.....Every other license plate on the streets and highways is from Texas or California.....(slight exaggeration, but more than ever before)

Maybe it will quiet down in the future, who knows...........

[Paladin]

9. Honestly: Thanks for nothing, John Denver.

For all his "Rocky Mountain High" bleating, no one person was more responsible for the boost in Colorado population, with subsequent ill effect on those beautiful Rocky Mountains. Sorry to see the Boulder area taking another major fire hit.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. No kidding.......

There was a dramatic change in Denver, Boulder, and for that matter the entire state seemingly caused by him.
At the time, us residents LOATHED the damage he caused to us, with just one song.
Tons of people transplanted themselves to Colorado from NY, Texas, and California to enjoy the "Rocky Mountain High"

Interesting that the current surge is un-fathomable and causing damage in much the same way.....

Don't even get me started on the People's Republic of Boulder.............It is nauseating, and gut wrenching, to see what the Yuppies have done to that city......

[Paladin]

14. Sounds familiar.

I have a number of Colorado friends who bear serious, long-time grudges regarding the negative effects of "Rocky Mountain High."

I've always felt that Boulder CO and Austin TX have a whole lot in common---unfortunately.

[CrispyQ]

10. Oh no!! These are some of my favorite hiking trails!

Just like the December 31 fire, which was just a little to the southeast of this one.

[NickB79]

11. At 420ppm of CO2, most of the West will burn in the 21st century

At 2C of warming by 2050, most forest will turn to savannah, and grasslands to scrub desert.

And those fires will themselves pump millions of tons of additional CO2 into the air.