Hot and dry! 100 degrees here in Albuquerque yesterday! We are praying for rain in these areas of Colorado and Wyoming. Can you even imagine what the firefighters feel like? Lord have mercy! We mourn the loss of the person who has been killed.
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A person was killed in one of several wildfires threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, authorities said Wednesday, as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S.
The death came in a fire near the town of Lyons that blackened more than two square miles (six square kilometers) by Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The person’s remains were discovered in one of five homes that burned, Boulder County Sheriff Curtis Johnson said without providing further details.
Though listed as zero percent contained, the Stone Canyon Fire was not growing significantly Wednesday as 150 firefighters battled the flames, Johnson said. It was one of several large fires burning along Colorado’s Front Range, a densely populated corridor that includes Denver and stretches roughly 80 miles (130 kilometers) along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. More Here
Cowboy State Daily Reports:
As wildfires across Wyoming continue to pop up and grow, firefighters shouldn’t expect any help from Mother Nature anytime soon. There won’t be any rain relief for the fires until next week, meteorologist Don Day says. No Rain Relief For Wyoming Wildfires Until Next Week
National Interagency Fire Center
July 31, 2024
Currently, 95 large active wildfires are being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide. Current fires nationwide have burned 2,180,105 acres. So far in 2024, 28,154 wildfires have burned 4,449,282 acres. People have caused more than 25,000 wildfires that have burned nearly 3 million acres. Lightning ignited about 2,740 wildfires and burned 1.1 million acres.
Nearly 28,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to wildfires, including 27 complex and 5 Type 1 incident management teams, 613 crews, 1,781 engines, 164 helicopters, and four Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS. More Here