It's been an eventful past week. On Monday there was a small fire on the Air Force Academy that they have determined was started by lightning. On Tues. after work I was doing a few errands and overheard a couple talking about a fire. I assumed it was the AFA one and they said there was a new one. It had just started in Black Forest. I got home and was glued to the TV for the next several days. It was way too close for comfort with the danger of jumping Hwy 83 and possible heading north and west toward us. Every afternoon the wind picks up and concerned everyone. Today is Sat. and it is now 55 % contained and they are going to reopen Rt. 83 soon. We never got evacuated but we were packed up and ready to go. We really need to get ourselves organized. We need to do lots of scanning, get a lock box, and really decrease the number of photo albums. 473 homes were lost and 2 people have died trying to evacuate. This fire is the most destructive fire in Colorado history. We also need to work on fire mitigation. A few years ago we had a forest service person come and walk our property and they said we had good spacing of the trees. I'm going to have a fireman come also. I think we may have to remove some trees. The cause of the fire has been determined that it was not caused by nature. That's really scary knowing that somebody is out there possibly setting fires!!!
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