Colorado Fires Spread- Threaten Air Force Academy
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 2:07 PM
Please keep Michelle Malkin and her family in your prayers. Michelle and her family were evacuated from their home in Colorado earlier this week.
Michelle Malkin, Jim Hoft, Dana Loesch, Ben Howe and Chris Loesch
Western states battling 29 large wildfires. The fire is only 5 percent contained.
Reuters reported:
Firefighters struggled on Wednesday against a wildfire at the edge of Colorado Springs that doubled in size overnight and has forced 32,000 people from their homes, prompted evacuations from the U.S. Air Force Academy and consumed an unknown number of homes.
The Waldo Canyon Fire, which has grabbed attention for days because of its proximity to landmarks like the famed mountaintop of Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy, has now burned through 15,375 acres (6,222 hectares) near Colorado’s second-most populous city, fire information officer Rob Deyerberg told Reuters.
“That means it made a run of roughly 9,000 acres (3,600 hectares) in a matter of hours yesterday afternoon,” he said.
Colorado Springs Fire Chief Rich Brown called the firestorm that hit his city – in a metropolitan area of more than 650,000 people – on Tuesday “a monster” and said at this point flames were “not even remotely close to being contained.”
The fire, which is only 5 percent contained, was not as intense early on Wednesday but would likely build up again as the temperature rises during the day, Deyerberg said.
UPDATE: Dan from Wizbang is blogging on the destruction from Colorado Springs.
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Mekan commented:
This whole situation is terrible. I hope that things can be contained before much more damage is done……but the witches circle built at the academy could go…
NitneLiun commented:
I lived in Manitou Springs for 6 years (just east of Waldo Canyon). It is surreal to turn on the TV and see so many of my old haunts go up in flames.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
MM surely has been tested these last few years.
May God bless and keep her.
Paul in N. AL commented:
But fear not, distant idiot wants to see, I say “throw him in the fire”. From Colorado Springs Gazette: “1:09 p.m.
Obama is reportedly coming to Colorado Springs on Friday to view the Waldo Canyon Fire area. We are confirming.”
Taqiyyotomist commented:
If we hadn’t, at the bidding of the progs, spent uncountable trillions of public dollars on useless socialist programs, grants, and entitlements, we could not only have had the Starship Freakin’ Enterprise by now, we could probably have come up with a way to get these fires put out by teleporting water onto them.
Too bad “Mydget Transgendyred Studies”, “Hetero-centric Hegemony Studies”, “Homoerotic Zero-Carbon Politics”, and a million other insanities won the dollars instead of real science.
Trillions are spent funding these insane assh()les.
Granny commented:
You can lay this, too, directly at the feet of The None. Instead of the 49 air-borne fire fighting planes we’re supposed to have to deal with the annual fires in the West, we have 9. Contracts have been cancelled and the company that made them is out of business.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
The Left masturbates over the Star Trek universe.
Without realizing that their very policies and expenditures of public dollars are all that stands between now and their fantasy world.
Fu&k science! Give me $10m to study midget porn (as it relates to Global Warming, of course).
BurmaShave commented:
Between the vote to hold Holder in contempt and the likely Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare, tomorrow might provide some interesting viewing on MSNBC, though personally not according to my tastes.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#8 Burmashave
The world is watching the U.S. news tomorrow.
Like we’ve been watching Greece.
Gonna be a crazy week.
BurmaShave commented:
(My comment #8 above was post here incorrectly and meant for the earlier article about the vote to hold Holder in contempt.)
FurryGuy commented:
So what’s he gonna do? Hold a canine BBQ?
So he’s going to Colorado so he can WATCH the fires, but what is he going to actually DO about the fires? Blame Bush and the GOP?
FurryGuy commented:
And those remaining 9 are about to be tied up and grounded by EPA regulations because, you know, that planes pollute.
Brandon In Baton Rouge commented:
So he’s going to Colorado so he can WATCH the fires, but what is he going to actually DO about the fires?
He’s going to showcase his fiddle-playing skills.
mcc commented:
Michelle, know you’ve been in my prayers along with everyone in the area.
What a trial. Father, in your mercy, protect your children.
And thank you, Lord, for the generous hearts who’ve given of themselves to their neighbors in need at this time.
Militant Conservative commented:
Anyone know where Obama is gonna be on Thursday??
Kinda of a give away on the healthcare ruling.
A Narcissist will be as far away as posible.
watch and learn
tennismom commented:
What caused these fires? Do we know for sure they were not started by terrorists?
Any form of chaos helps the forces of chaos.
valerie commented:
We’re 40 planes short to fight the fires we know we are going to get every year, and we’ve managed to run the company that supplies them out of business.
Mitt Romney just won the Presidential election, and the Republicans have won the Senate and will sweep the House, again.
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