Colorado wildfire: No deaths have been reported

That's good news so far as there haven't been any fatalities that they know of. Determining those who might be missing will be a challenge in the coming days. How awful for so many people.

Yeah what a horrendous way to end the year. Within the span of six hours, it went from no fire, to a small brush fire, to a fire spanning many square kilometers burning nearly 600 homes to the ground, and become the state�s costliest fire to date. All in six hours.

In the middle of winter after a fall of no rain or snow. But don�t worry. Climate change is a hoax.

And from now on, the cost of repairs will exceed the cost of moving to a carbon free economy. We've reached the economic tipping point.

Fires can do that, and quickly. One match or ember or lightning strike can turn into a raging inferno that can sweep across the land with breakneck speed.

-J.

Perfectly normal thing to happen in the dry conditions of early Spring. Not so much in December at the colder and higher altitudes like Colorado.

Perhaps, but fires in the cold of winter are not unheard of nor out of the question. Bitter cold means a dry cold. A couple years before I moved to my present location in Barrie, a forest fire started north of here in a county forest in January.

Temps were -20*C that week, and when the winds from the Great Lakes kicked up, it got nasty and almost overwhelming for the local fire services.

Expect the unexpected.

-J.