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I've been meaning to start this. I wish I had something happier to start with, but c'est la vie, I suppose.

There are 11 fires burning here right now (give or take one or two in direction). There's a huge one that has burned almost 90,000 acres that's been going for a couple of weeks now, and I thought it was going to be the worst this year. But a fire started in Colorado Springs on Saturday morning. It isn't nearly as big, but the winds picked up and went crazy today and the fire started jumping and is burning a lot of homes. 32,000 people have been evacuated so far, and it will probably get worse. :(

It's up to 6200 acres and is only 5% contained.



Heartbreaking.

The most difficult thing for me right now is that my best friends just got their mandatory evacuations maybe half an hour ago and I can't reach them because cell service is overloaded and being reserved for emergency workers. :(

The High Park fire near Ft. Collins is over 87,000 acres (136 square miles), is the second largest in our state's history, and has destroyed 257 homes and killed one person.

The Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs was 6200 acres last night and has more than doubled to 15,000 acres overnight. There is no telling how many homes have been destroyed so far. About 30,000 people have been evacuated.

There are about 10 more fires currently burning, 7 of them large active fires, including another near Boulder that caused a few hundred evacuations last night. Colorado is not the only state suffering from fires this dry season. There are fires in New Mexico and other states. Please keep everyone affected by every fire in your thoughts, especially those with homes in their paths and the brave firefighters who are working tirelessly to save as much as possible.

:(

I just heard about this on the news today. I hope you and your family are safe.

Have they gotten the fire controlled to some degree? I heard it was spreading 20 miles and hour(if I heard correctly).

It hasn't grown much today, but it's only about 5% contained right now. There was a little rain today, so that was good. :) We're safe, thankfully, since we're about 65 miles away, but I have friends who had to evacuate.

I've been following it because we have family in Colorado Springs. We have family all over Colorado actually, but those are the only ones close to the fires. We are going to be there next month...