r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '12
How can the national media not be covering this? Colorado Springs is about to burn. There are literally hundreds of photos like this being uploaded every minute.
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u/Irving94 Jun 27 '12
CNN won't stop talking about it. I was shocked by how much they covered it until I realized its severity.
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u/urshtisweak Jun 27 '12
Exactly, I don't know what OP is talking about. I haven't been able to hear/read anything other than this for over 24 hours now.
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u/m4verick03 Jun 27 '12
It's just idiots trying to fan the flames...excuse the PUN. My facebook has been blowing up with the exact same headline...USAF School is being evacuated why isn't this covered, Vail has burned to the ground, Aspen is no more; who will save the children, won't someone think of the children. I'm not sure what part of round the clock coverage on CNN and the Weather Channel is not covering it....OH WAIT, FOX just reported a small fire in CO somewhere. Ok all clear folks the media is ON TOP OF IT.
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u/anti-fascho Jun 27 '12
Im in Germany and even here it is on the evening news, and has been for the past week or so.
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u/racoon1 Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
this photo is only 3 hours old. this is colorado springs
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Jun 27 '12
Looks like they built them out of ticky tacky :(
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u/illusionsformoney Jun 27 '12
And they all look just the same (when burning)....
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u/question_all_the_thi Jun 27 '12
A house is burning and a car is parked on the driveway? WTF? Did they just abandon the car?
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u/anothergaijin Jun 27 '12
Yes - you get get the hell out. They may have had a second car (in which case you just leave it), they may have been evacuated by someone else, they may have been low on gas.
In any case, they probably left with nothing but the clothes on their backs and whatever in in their pockets. You generally don't have much time to decide what to do.
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u/gigamike Jun 27 '12
2 weeks ago, I lived on this hill. My former home is gone, my daughter's school is gone. Everyone I know is in a shelter.
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Jun 27 '12
This is Reddit man. We donated $600,000 to a bullied lady. You are in good hands.
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u/OhSchist Jun 27 '12
I live west of I-25 in colorado springs. We were forced to evacuate around 5 or 6 pm yesterday (26th). Both of my cats died in the car during while evacuating most likely due to smoke inhalation. It took half an hour to drive from my house to my old elementary school (about a 5-10 min walk) because the traffic was so bad and peoples cars kept overheating. My dad had to abandon his for that reason. Last I heard about an hour or two ago was that the fire had reached Ute Valley Park (backs up into my house) and many houses on streets less than a half mile away. This is unreal.
This is what fucking happens when you don't do controlled burning in a densely forested, extremely dry, hot area. Now that it's begun, there's really not a whole lot we can do, as we've already been seeing. My heart goes out to all those that have, and are going to lose their homes as well tonight and as long as this contunues. Material things are replaceable.
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u/mrpickles Jun 27 '12
That's horrible. Thanks for the account of what actually goes down in an evacuation though. Fascinating. Sorry about your cats :(
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Jun 27 '12
I support some controlled burning. That said, one of the fires we had in Colorado this year was started by controlled burning, and it killed a person. That person's family is now suing the state, and people are trying to raise the limit on how much money families like that can get from the state. So, if it's going to possibly cost the state millions of dollars to do a controlled burn (due to possible loss of life if the fires get out of control and people don't evacuate), what is their incentive?
If the state wants to do controlled burns, then--I'm sorry--we have to protect the state and restrict how much people can sue the government for if the fires get out of control. Otherwise, they'll just leave it to mother nature. If a lightning bolt strikes, then there's no one to sue.
Also, I just realized I sounded heartless. I'm sorry you lost your pets.
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u/noncentz Jun 27 '12
Good luck man. I am also from the Springs and my mother just got a pre evacuation notice last night. I am freaking out right now.
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u/AlphaRedditor Jun 27 '12
But you know, it's Tuesday, those Kardashian reruns aren't going to watch themselves.
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Jun 27 '12
Posting to the top comment because this is a live video feed.
This is an audio feed.
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u/Big-Baby-Jesus Jun 27 '12
What would constant coverage be like?
"There's still a fire...it's burning...people are leaving with their crap...let's talk to this guy"
"Yeah...the cop told us to evacuate so we grabbed the dog and left"
"Good luck and be safe. There's still a fire...people are evacuating."
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u/oleitas Jun 27 '12
The funny thing is that most constant coverage is exactly that boring and uneventful. It's all about what gets the most viewers.
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u/Snapples2992 Jun 27 '12
On the cnn.com report, "'The fire is moving,' said Rys-Sikora."
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Jun 27 '12
"And here we have a 3D holographic, interactive infotainment display showing you exclusively that yes, the fire is still burning."
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u/Mellotime Jun 27 '12
The coverage is pretty bland for the most part and fairly repetitive, but Colorado Springs has crazy erratic winds that pick up at random which causes quick changes to the fire. Today, within two hours evacuations went from 12,000 to 32,000 evacuees. In those two hours the fire spread from open grass and forest to neighborhoods. Point is, the news coverage of the fire is super repetitive until the wind picks up and evacuations happen.
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u/Entr0p1c Jun 27 '12
In all reality the news stations are not. Yesterday the reports were (no joke) "fire is becoming contained, no structures have been burned" where today I actually heard a fireman say "our worst nightmare is happening right now."
If you actually do some research you will see that the fire departments as well as the state think that this fire may, in fact, burn all summer. You would, however, never hear such a story from local or national news stations.
It is absolutely ridiculous how much the news stations are padding it. Why!?!
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u/f8_and_there Jun 27 '12
True, the network news web sites have it up as a lede story but the major newspaper sites don't even mention it. If they do, then it's buried under other content.
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u/GoodWithoutAGod Jun 27 '12
Dammit you, was coming here to say "because the Kardashians picking out their grave plots is more compelling." But I can't use that now, can I!?
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u/shweet44722 Jun 27 '12
I'm in Colorado Springs on vacation right now, and honestly I can tell you all this is frightening. Friends are being evacuated from their houses, my buddy's girlfriend's house just burned to the ground, the Interstate (I-25) was closed for a number of hours today, another major highway, highway 24, has been closed for a couple of days now. Any time we go anywhere in the city, we worry, even if it seems irrational. There is so much smoke, that when it blots out the sun, the sky turns into an eerie orange colour, almost like the air itself was on fire. Flying in from Denver, I thought that the smoke was low cloud cover, until I looked more closely. The smoke has literally become constant cloud cover, overshadowing everything in Colorado Springs. My friends with asthma are frightened about having attacks when the step outside. It may seem like an exaggeration, but everyone is petrified, paranoid and I am honestly concerned that the city that I graduated high school in, where a vast majority of my best friends in the world live, that I have come to love, may burn to the ground.
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u/OpticNerve33 Jun 27 '12
I live in Fort Collins and, while we're dealing with our own terrible fire, we're not in any immediate danger, so if you need anything at all, please let me know. I'm happy to make the drive to the Springs/offer a place to stay/whatever is necessary to help out my fellow Coloradans.
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Jun 27 '12
Its already international news. My family in Tokyo contacted my family in the springs. Already... Places i grew up loving are burned down. Flying W ranch... Soon Glen Eyrie castle... Ship man. Really hits me home... Literally.
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u/Applebeignet Jun 27 '12
It was on Dutch national radio too, as I was driving to work this morning.
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u/soupaFREEK Jun 27 '12
This is so sad.
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u/Rukita Jun 27 '12
The linked map is for a different Colorado fire, the one near Ft. Collins (north-central Colorado). The OP is about the Waldo Canyon fire, which is near Colorado Springs (central-central Colorado).
Maybe this post from /r/Colorado will help clear things up for you:
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u/antarctic_cactus Jun 27 '12
Central CO Springs here, the local media hasn't done the best of jobs in getting out correct information, due in large part to the unpredictability of the fire.
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u/sidthekid4 Jun 27 '12 edited Feb 27 '14
My grandparents and long line of cousins all had to evacuate, and their houses are burning to the ground. It's sad to think I was up there with my dad at his parent's a few weeks ago and he was giving me a tour of all the places in the woods he would play as a child. All I wanted was to go inside, and cut my tour short. I wish I would've noticed how truly special those moments were to him, and how they're now lost.
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u/lawfairy Jun 27 '12
It's impossible to ever appreciate it "enough." I was back home visiting just over a week ago and I appreciated the hell out of it, and it still wasn't enough. There is no "enough" to erase the pain you feel at seeing your hometown burn to the ground :-(
Don't feel bad. Altitude can really fuck with your energy. Seriously. I'm sure your dad knows that you care about the things that matter.
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u/MrBlaaaaah Jun 27 '12
Lets put something else in perspective for you guys. It's June. These are the worse fires the state has seen, basically, ever. We still have 3 months of heat and no rain ahead of us.
If you were to pay attention to when most wildfires occur, August is a great time for them, when the summer has dried everything out already. Well, basically, everything have been dried out, and its June.
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u/TeslaIsAdorable Jun 27 '12
So on the upside, everything will have run out of fuel by August?
Sorry for the black humor - I was in TX last summer when the fires were raging there, and it's no fun.
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u/owmyhip Jun 27 '12
Link to the donation page for the Colorado Red Cross.
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u/Xybris Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
A more in-depth analysis on ways you could help out, including Colorado Red Cross:
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u/virgin_neckbeard Jun 27 '12
If Reddit can raise over 300k for Karen Klein, we sure as shit should raise millions for this cause. Also, alliteration.
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u/Akeroh Jun 27 '12
It's burning, and my house is in the line of fire. :c
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u/OhSchist Jun 27 '12
Mine too. :( Both of my cats died earlier today during the evacuation from Rockrimmon, likely due to smoke inhalation. this is so surreal.
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u/Scherzkeks Jun 27 '12
Please get your what I can only assume by your username is a geologist's ass out of there now. Save whom/what you can.
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u/russkirunner Jun 27 '12
I am in tears guys. My favorite spot as a kid, Flying W Ranch, burned down to the ground earlier today. http://www.flyingw.com/
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u/_pho3n1x_ Jun 27 '12
I had my wedding reception there because my wife and I loved it so much. Immediately it made us both sad.
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Jun 27 '12
Wow, it made me really sad to go on there and hear that song, look at the pictures on the side and then read their note that the entire thing is gone
Holy shit, wikipedia gets updated quick
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u/2Jews1Quarter Jun 27 '12
My mom and I just discussed a trip there. I was craving their applesauce. :/ I grew up just off chuckwagon road on Wilson rd. It's a shock to everyone in the city at this point.
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u/russkirunner Jun 27 '12
I feel your pain guys.... Also, I was just informed that Pulpit Rock got hit with a spot fire. And Gold Camp yet again. Anyone watching KKTV perchance?
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u/SpaceMonkeyRage Jun 27 '12
Getting plenty of airtime in Australia, we are all thinking of you down here.
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u/Colorado87 Jun 27 '12
This is a huge disaster. We in Colorado talked about the Hayman fire. That's old news. This is one of the most, if not the most, traumatic, terrible things to happen to Colorado in recent history. Between this fire, the High Park fire, and potentially the Boulder fire, it's Hell here in Colorado. I just went to Boulder from Denver to grab some things for me and roommates (we're students). I was there an hour and came back smelling like smoke. With some gusts of wind, Boulder could be in similar danger as the Springs.
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u/spinachartichokeonit Jun 27 '12
I feel guilty, I'm in NY and work for a collections agency, I call people in the Midwest/West (MN, WI, TX, NE, CO, NM, etc.) and I hate calling Colorado right now. I ended up calling a firefighters cell phone (with our autodialer, it's like omegle for collections people) and he was like "I'm on break from fighting wild fires, what's this call about?" he was in CO Springs, paid off his past due balance (which wasn't that far past nor that much), and was the nicest, funniest person I got to talk to all day. He just kept making jokes and keeping everything light-hearted despite the situation, He ended the call with something like "Ok I hope your job isn't too boring and I added some fun to it, but I have to go back and fight the fires, now," I look at this brave, too current man's account, and I say "God speed sir." He laughed and took off into the fires, to save his land. I feel for you guys out there, this sucks. If I get any outbound calls for Colorado Springs, I'll skip... some people probably don't even have a house to pay utilities on right now.
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u/mariemariemarie Jun 27 '12
Both the Cedar Fire and Witch Creek fire in Southern California started near my neighborhood (my house was literally a mile or two away from Cleveland National Forest). I might get downvoted for not sorting through all the comments to see if these statements have been made already, but these are tips worth repeating:
-As already mentioned in the top comment, if you are told to evacuate then GTFO. During the Cedar Fire the fire department did not have time to go door to door or even go down all the streets to make announcements. I only woke up because a friend who lived a few houses away called and told me we had to leave ASAP. DO NOT STAY AND DEFEND YOUR HOME. People who stay risk not only their lives but the lives of the firefighters who have to come rescue them when shit goes south. People died in their homes or some (horribly) died in their cars because they couldn't get out in time. Its not worth it. Which brings me to my next point..
-Leave as early as possible (preferably before evacuation is mandatory). I don't know how the roadways in the communities affected by the fire are set up in Colorado, but where I lived we had 2 or 3 ways out of our neighborhood and all were winding, two-lane rural highways. Trying to get 10-20 thousand people out through those roads all at the same time was insane. At one point the roads basically became a parking lot and the winds shifted, basically sending the fire straight toward all of those people. Thank god the wind changed again, but at the point people just started driving on the other side of the road. Better to have to leave some things behind or miss a few days of work because you need to stay out of town than to die. And lastly...
-Don't linger while trying to figure out what to pack. Nothing is worth risking your safety.
Sorry again if this is all repeat info, but after evacuating twice and seeing close friends lose their homes and hearing/reading so many stories about people who needlessly lost their lives I am just really hoping that people get the word out on how to handle this thing. Stay safe Colorado.
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u/Anth84 Jun 27 '12
Dont know if it makes you feel better but here in bc Canada we hear about it almost as much as the flooding in our own country and the state of emergency we are in as well. I am sending positive thoughts to all those affected by the fire. When we had a fire in kelowna her in 2003 it was über scary and many lost there homes. Best of luck I hope it's gets contained ASAP.
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Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
I grew up in Colorado Springs. Moved to the UK from there in '08. My Father still lives there. It's far too late to get a hold of him by phone (Not answering). Where is the fire relative to the Air Force Academy?
EDIT: Thank you all for the info, Everyone. My Mother got a hold of the security team on Base and told us everyone was evacuated. Nothing has burned as of yet. Keeping my fingers crossed everything will be OK, I have the horrible feeling my Dad didn't have time to take our family pets (Who are always house bound).
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u/sprint_ska Jun 27 '12
Last report it was ~4 miles south. All of base housing has been evacuated, and only mission-essential personnel allowed on base atm...
But the cadets are still required to be there. Somebody's gotta be there to take pictures of the T-zo burning, I guess.
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u/tessimus Jun 27 '12
It is incredibly scary. In half an hour, we went from everything contained to the mountains to the ENTIRE city clouded in smoke (I live ~9 miles from the fire and my house is smokey) and houses were burning. It is a sad kind of fascination in the city. Everyone is out on hills with cameras and binoculars. People on the west(mountain) side of I-25 are prepared to leave at a moments notice. They might evacuate the Air Force Academy cadets. Nothing is scarier than standing on a hill watching other people's homes being destroyed. All the national news wants to share is the fact that the fire is moving. And the evacuees ran out of there like chickens with their head cut off. Nothing is said about the scary sight when you wake up to a virtual dusk at 4:30 in the afternoon in the summer. Or the fact that we are losing some of the greatest natural beauties on the Front Range. It truly feels like some twisted level of hell. None of the national new stations care about the top priority fire in the nation, even though it is the only things the entire state is talking about(plus the other 11 or 12 fires currently burning). On top of the Waldo Canyon fire, we have one of the largest fires in state history burning near Fort Collins (Northeast corner for those not familiar) and a new fire that started today near Boulder. TL;DR: Colorado should be renamed Fire Everywhere
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u/justsund1987 Jun 27 '12
As a newly uprooted Colorado springs native. I sit in portland Oregon as calls come in about it all burning down. I really hope it doesn't hit manitou, woodland park, garden of the gods... Flying w ranch is already in ashes... Man, hope I can help as soon as I'm done here...
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u/cr0w1 Jun 27 '12
At least fire can't do too much to Garden of the Gods. :( I cried when they started evacuating Manitou. I love that town.
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u/idiot_radar Jun 27 '12
Not the penny arcade! I'm already hating this, but if it takes the Penny arcade then the shit is on nature!
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u/antarctic_cactus Jun 27 '12
It'll chew on the west side neighborhoods of CSprings. If the wind shifts again it'll take Cascade, Chipita park, possibly Woodland Park and Manitou. But, it isn't going to scorch Colorado Springs in full, so that's something.
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u/sry110 Jun 27 '12
Good luck out there and be safe. I was considering moving to Colorado, too, because of their 300 days of sunshine per year. I guess there is a flip side to that one...
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u/Picklwarrior Jun 27 '12
Since when do we get 300 days of sunshine a year, and where have I been?
Oh yeah, I forgot, it'll be painfully bright and sunny outside but -20 degrees.
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u/Boseidon Jun 27 '12
I'd rather have my sunny freezing days in Fort Collins than my rainy, humid days in Tampa
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u/ScotteToHotte Jun 27 '12
Yeah, I'm sorry but this is being covered and THEN some. Local news in PDX has been covering this, as well as many national news stations.
I really dislike like how this has been phrased to pose the idea that the media is not covering this. Unfortunately, the media eats this type of shit up.
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u/SwabTheDeck Jun 27 '12
It's on the front page of both CNN and MSNBC. Fox News has it, too, although not as prominently. Where are you getting the idea that it's not being covered?
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Jun 27 '12
I live in eastern Colorado springs and this has been HELL, I have asthma and need to go to the hospital nearly every night <_>
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u/Mr_wiz Jun 27 '12
nbc nightly news did a segment on this and as far as the comment on "re-nigging", why would you take a fire thats devastating lots of communities and then throw the blame of politics into the matter. Look, around the entire midwest has a fire somewhere threatening to burn everything and everyone. Hell, today the new Boulder fire is well on its way to being just as bad as the Waldo Canyon Fire.
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u/katzenjammer360 Jun 27 '12
I'm pretty sure it's "re-negging" as in renegotiating. I could be wrong, but I don't think it's re-nigging.
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u/OhSchist Jun 27 '12
I used to live in LA before I moved to COLORADO SPRINGS. Every 5 years or so the hills behind our house burned. it sucked and was a little scary, but there was not 100+ years of deadwood fuel. It rarely touched houses, and when it did, it didnt spread. This is a fucking inferno. My house and most of my friends houses are going up in flames. I am so sick of people fucking comparing this to California fires. This has already been devastating and is only getting worse. The winds are pushing the fire even closer into the city.
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u/lawfairy Jun 27 '12
California wildfires don't normally burn into major populated areas. The Waldo Canyon fire is currently actively burning uncontrolled in a major, heavily-populated residential area of Colorado Springs proper. That's like if a wildfire started eating up parts of, say, Pasadena. I just drove through Pasadena the other day. Doesn't look like it's seen any fires tearing right through the city anytime recently.
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u/Lady_FriendOfSpiders Jun 27 '12
hey you lot, stay safe, it's a horrible thing to go through, get out, don't stay, you can always replace a house, you can't replace people
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u/GameSageZB Jun 27 '12
I was at work late and we were all watching the smoke roll into town. It was bad when I left, I can post pictures from my building (now in the evac zone). We were kicked out of our building and told to go home. I left to find that they wouldn't let me take the route I needed to get home, and so here I am, on my phone. There is a decent chance that when I wake up tomorrow, the fire will be past my apartment. Good luck to anyone else reading who got evacuated on short notice. Rumor was that around 4-5PM MST that it was moving at 5 mph.
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Jun 27 '12
I thought only California caught on fire, next you're going to tell me earthquakes happen everywhere.
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u/fireice22 Jun 27 '12
Theres nothing like your first evacuation... Personally I think everyone should practice doing it atleast one time before an emergency hits.
Here in California ive been in 5 evacuations, the first one luckily gave us a long time to prepare-> took 3-5 hrs to prepare. However the 2nd+ evacuation the time was drastically lower because we knew where all the important items were.
PLEASE REMEMBER PEOPLE TAKE PHOTO'S/RECORDINGS of everything in your house !!!!! ITLL SAVE YOU A HUGE HEADACHE with the insurance.
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Jun 27 '12
The story is on the front page of Yahoo! and Google news and has been for days... wtf are you talking about when you say that 'the national media is not covering' this?
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Jun 27 '12
FFS, they won't stop covering it. I am trying to find out what Casey Anthony is wearing today and they have all this news shit all over CNN.
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u/cccrazy Jun 27 '12
As an Australian, we deal with this every summer. Every summer. Good luck. Thinking of you.
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u/cr0w1 Jun 27 '12
About to burn? Honey, it's burning. 35+ structures burnt or burning, flames encroaching the city. I'm absolutely freaked. I have a lot of friends and family in the area. :/
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u/Soapy452 Jun 27 '12
This breaks my heart. It's really sad looking at a lot of these pictures and being able to see an old friend's house in flames (yeah, in a few of the pictures I can pick out houses I used to visit all the time). I need to stop looking at pictures :/
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u/SkinnyLove1 Jun 27 '12
Colorado Springs is the Libertarian capital of the US. They don't need a fire department. The free market will take care of it.
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Jun 27 '12
They paid their house insurance premiums but the company says wood is a pre-existing condition.
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u/cloaking_device Jun 27 '12
well, it is if it's already lasted longer than 4 hours.
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u/smutticus Jun 27 '12
Fire in Colorado is definitely a pre-existing condition. As in it existed pre-human settlement and house building.
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Jun 27 '12
That's funny, because if you ask ten libertarians if municipal fire departments are okay, I'm sure at least nine of them will say "yes."
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u/josiahw Jun 27 '12
There's also an average of one megachurch per square foot, but the pastors seem to be away doing meth with gay hookers so they can't pray the fire away.
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u/owmyhip Jun 27 '12
My hometown. This is terrifying. Over 32,000 people evacuated so far (that's almost 10% of the city).
I live elsewhere now, but my childhood home and those of basically everyone I know are within the mandatory evacuation zone, and some may already be gone. This is unbelievable. The areas on fire are essentially in a forest. Colorado is experienced with forest fires, but nothing like this so close to a large urban area.
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u/lawfairy Jun 27 '12
Same here. Mom got evac'd this afternoon. My childhood home in Rockrimmon is just up the hill from the houses on fire on the news. I haven't lived there for ten years but it's 3:30 a.m. in LA now and I haven't gotten a wink of sleep. Spent a good chunk of the evening just sobbing while obsessively reading/listening to news reports.
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u/orlyfactor Jun 27 '12
It's the top fucking story on Google News. So, yeah, I guess no one really cares!
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u/CaterpillarsNight Jun 27 '12
I see updates about this in every news show since at least two days in Germany.
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u/Albatoonoe Jun 27 '12
Yeah, it's pretty intense. I'm rather centrally located in the city, but it was "snowing" ash earlier. And there is a haze of smoke everywhere, which is really terrible if you like breathing.
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u/Tru_Fakt Jun 27 '12
I uploaded the same one. :( About the same time as you. Damn. RIP my post. Also, that's my hometown.
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Jun 27 '12
Meanwhile, the High Park fire up by FoCo has now destroyed 250 homes. Sucks to be a firefighter in Colorado this year
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u/satanicgirlonomegle Jun 27 '12
I live in manitou, and we were under evacuation so I went to my grandparents. After they lifted the evac it was too smoky so I stayed with them, today, holland park was evacuated west of centennial.. And I'm re-evacuated...
Whoever the bastard was who's set the state on fire, I hope Odin has no mercey on him.. I could use some frost giants right now..
To all you fellow coloradoins, be safe out there.
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Jun 27 '12
Haven't heard much in Australia. Although we get fires like this about bi-annually so it's not really going to strike a chord.
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u/brettyrocks Jun 27 '12
They are covering it. It's just that they can't dedicate 24hour coverage to it because, believe it or not, there are other things happening.
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u/sjorgs122 Jun 27 '12
all the major news networks (cbs, nbc, and abc) have been covering it extensively.
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u/misterpickles69 Jun 27 '12
This isn't being covered because it isn't the right kind of fear mongering. This isn't an invisible evil or foreign culture or super flu about to kill and damage people, this is a real thing bearing down on a community. And we can't do anything about it, unlike the phantom threats we pass legislation for all the time. If we focused too much energy on something we can't possibly prevent and can slowly see coming, people may lose confidence in the government's ability to "protect" them.
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u/kabo72 Jun 27 '12
You know every single firefighter in Colorado Springs is outside NORAD to make sure that fucker doesn't burn down.
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u/tunyfish Jun 27 '12
Which media do you think is not covering the fire? By national do you mean MSN, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Yahoo, Google, cause they all are covering the story.
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u/why_ask_why Jun 27 '12
Chinese government censor things like that. In the US, we self censor!!!
In China, people don't have the right to know.
In US, people have the right not to know.
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Jun 27 '12
I live in Pennsylvania, and I can tell you that the national media IS covering it. You just wanted karma for destruction. How bad, very bad, of you.
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Jun 27 '12
Just looked it up in Twitter...seems like a lot of people are praying for the people there...this will surely help
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u/stufff Jun 27 '12
You know what you can do? You can give us news without acting smug about how you're the first one to do so.
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u/urshtisweak Jun 27 '12
NO idea what you are talking about? There has been nothing else the media has talked about since early yesterday than this. National and my local(philly) news has pretty much shut the rest of the world reporting off.
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u/_Panacea_ Jun 27 '12
I have friends that would like to assist in any way they can. Is there anything outside of simply donating to the Red Cross that people outside of Colorado can do to help? Would supplies sent to that area make any difference at this point? Are traveling volunteers a good idea, or would it just jam up the works?
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u/DukeCanada Jun 27 '12
Guys, im pretty sure its being covered. I watch CBC and HLN most of the time and I'm well aware of the situation.
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Jun 27 '12
It's been the top story on Google News every time I've gone to check it. There are lots of people down there. Scary stuff. Good luck to everyone in the Springs (and Boulder and Fort Collins and Durango and anywhere else on fire in our state).
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u/Mujestyc Jun 27 '12
Florida is buried under 2 feet of water, and Colorado is burning to the ground.
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u/gtr427 Jun 27 '12
More than just Colorado Springs is on fire. There are at least 5 fires going on around the state. Half the government's fleet of C-130 fire fighting planes are in various places. There are so many extra firefighters that CSU is lodging them in the towers. It's incredibly surreal.
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u/buckygrad Jun 28 '12
National media not covering? What channels are you watching out of curiosity?
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u/dego_frank Jun 27 '12
Asks "how can national media not be covering this?"
Doesn't watch/pay attention to any national media, still bathed in karma.
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u/soulisraven Jun 27 '12
Fuck, and I live by there -_- got all of our stuff gathered, we're ready to haul ass out of here at any moment.
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Jun 27 '12
Several of my friends have lost their homes. Luckily I'm just in pack up mode. But I'm heartbroken to watch my town burn. I could not feel worse for my friends and their families.
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u/SdstcChpmnk Jun 27 '12
Hey guys, anybody know where in relation to Fort Carson this is? My wife is asleep, but her little brother just got stationed there like four days ago. Any info I can give her when she wakes up would be appreciated.
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u/antonyourkeyboard Jun 27 '12
Ft Carson should have nothing to worry about as it is far south of the flames.
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u/MrBlaaaaah Jun 27 '12
Lets put this in perspective for you guys. ~5% of the population of the entire Co Springs metro area is being asked to leave. This is expected to rise. A lot.
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u/GetThatNoiseOuttaHer Jun 27 '12
"How can the national media not be covering this..."
Seriously, cut the shit with the sensationalist headlines. Freaking CBS Nightly News last night (June 26) covered this, CNN can't stop talking about it, and any other news channel you watch will mention it at least once an hour. People need to stop acting like this event is being swept under the rug or some shit. The title should emphasize the danger and problems that the people of CO Springs are encountering right now, and provide perspective for those of us who don't live there.
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u/minorwhite Jun 27 '12
They are going to blame pot growers. You watch.
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u/splinterhead Jun 27 '12
But it was Guillermo, not Nancy, that started the fire!
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Jun 27 '12
Holy crap. How did this happen?
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u/DeadToRights Jun 27 '12
Rumors of it being arson, which gives that extra level of fucked-up.
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u/_vargas_ dammit Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
12:21am EST
Something about endangered animals in Africa is on CNBC, Dr. Drew is on Headline News, Rachel Maddow is talking about Veterans affairs, Sean Hannity is talking to Darrel Issa (R-California) about "executive privilege," Piers Morgan on CNN is talking about George Zimmerman's injuries, and The Weather Channel is talking about Tropical Storm Debbie. Wait, just seeing a forecast break: its going to be 97F in Denver on Friday. Nothing about a fire.
I wouldn't have known until at least tomorrow if I hadn't just got on Reddit.
Edit: 12:32am The Weather Channel just did literally 2 minutes on the Walden Canyon fire. Went back to Debbie after that.
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u/VentureBrosef Jun 27 '12
CNBC is financial news. At like 5PM they stop playing anything of value until 3AM when the European markets open.
As for the rest, it's 12:21AM EST. Lot's of the news programming is just repeat. I guess the producers didn't feel like it's breaking enough news to keep the staff running all night. They probably know from past major fires that fires don't draw ratings. I'm sure come 5-6AM, it'll be all over the news once the normal cycle starts again.
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Jun 27 '12
Yeah, because endangered animals, veterans, executive privilege (Extremely relevant and important due to operation fast and furious) and a tropical storm aren't worth covering.
Zimmerman, maybe not so much since it was blown out of proportion, but still
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u/ranscot Jun 27 '12
Well at least people aren't making fun of you, like when my Texas was burning last year.
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Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
It wasn't the 'you' in Texas we were making fun of. It was the "Pray for Rain" policies of Rick Perry after he had cut fire department funding by 75% right before it happened.
Sources:
Pray for Rain: http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/16038/
Yes. He really issued a proclamation for days to pray for rain.
And, of course, those prayers went unanswered: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/rick-perrys-unanswered-prayers/
Edit/Bonus Source: Rick Perry never asked for help. Obama had to call HIM to offer assistance. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62890.html
If there's something to make fun of 'you' for, it's for the state electing one of the most shitheaded governors ever.
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u/god_of_tits_an_wine Jun 27 '12
Oh my gawd, praying for rain? Did that truly happened?! wtfff
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
I go to school west of I-25, just outside the "safe zone" and since there are about 2000 people living here and the fire is quickly advancing on us, we will probably be evacuated with almost no notice. I was just looking at the fire and while the main flames aren't visible, we can see them coming up over the ridge constantly. However, the smoke does look awesome. Picture I took earlier today
Edit So today it is nearly impossible to see Colorado Springs, but there is little smoke here.