Colorado Wildfires 2018 *Arrest*

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Colorado, U.S. West struggle with smoke as wildfires continue to burn

[Thick smoke in Denver blocked the view of some of Colorado’s famous mountains and prompted an air quality health advisory for the northeastern quarter of the state.]

[Patients at Denver’s National Jewish Health, a respiratory hospital, were reporting worsening symptoms, hospital spokesman Adam Dormuth said.]
 
Father of man accused of starting Lake Christine Fire asks for trial in trespass case

Craig Miller said he is not guilty and will take his chances at trial.

Miller, whose son Richard is accused along with Allison Marcus of sparking the Lake Christine Fire, pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to charges that he stormed to a neighbor's house and confronted them, accusing them of telling police that Richard and Marcus were in his Missouri Heights home.

Craig Miller's three-day trial is scheduled to begin April 8, 2019 on criminal trespass charges, a felony, and misdemeanor menacing charges. If convicted, he faces between one and three years in jail. Prosecutors had offered Miller a plea deal. Miller rejected it and will go to trial.

Miller is back in court Jan. 11 for a hearing in advance of his April trial.
 
Moving forward for 2019, very cold night tonight below zero. I realized that as I’m complaining about the cold, it is really more important to be grateful for all the moisture we get. We got a few inches of snow today.

Posting some resource links as we monitor snowpack:

Colorado SNOTEL Watershed Time Series Snowpack Graphs | NRCS Colorado

Last summer was a very hot and dry year.

How dry was it comparatively to other years I wonder.

What are the forecasts/predictions for this summer’s wildfire season, or is it too early to tell?

https://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf

Colorado Water Supply Outlook Report
February 2019:
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/states/co/wsor/borco219.pdf

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ETA:

When Snowpack Is The Concern, Science Keeps A Wary Eye Out For Dust

“Researchers are watching this year’s mountain snowpack. It’s important work as Colorado falls deeper into drought.
Jeff Derry, executive director of the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies, tracks the amount of dust deposited on snow across the state. He and his assistants snowshoe and ski to 11 high country sites where they measure how much dust there is on the snow surface.

Dust pulls more solar energy into the snowpack, which is essentially a reservoir of water for managers across the West. In dusty years, snow melts earlier. The rate of runoff can increase substantially compared to low dust-on-snow years.“

(Wow who knew?)
 
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Hoping the “bomb cyclone” was just what we needed for this summer.
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It's looking good so far for this summer - maybe campfires will not have to be restricted this year!

Finally! Colorado’s drought is nearly officially over. – The Denver Post
[After the state spent much of 2018 mired in a nasty and costly drought, it’s almost officially over. As of last Thursday’s official update from the United States Drought Monitor, only a tiny sliver of Colorado remains in a drought. Less than 1 percent of the state — a thin line in the extreme far southwest corner of the state along the New Mexico border — was classified as experiencing some form of drought, according to the Monitor....

Colorado’s drought, however, already has done its damage. It produced one of the worst wildfire seasons on record last summer, and most state reservoirs continue to run below capacity. And even with as big as a winter as Colorado saw, it can’t alone make up for back-to-back paltry winters.]
 
Colorado wildfire season expected to be calmer this year thanks to lots of snow and average temperature forecast – Longmont Times-Call

“Coloradans can expect a less severe wildfire season this year thanks to large amounts of snow in the mountains and predictions that temperatures will be about average through the summer.

But an average wildfire season in Colorado still means that more than 6,000 fires will likely burn more than than 100,000 acres, not including fires on federal lands. Despite an expected reprieve this year, fire experts predict that the state’s wildfire seasons over time will continue to become more intense and more dangerous due to a build of natural fuels such as declining forest health and a growing population of people living in wildfire-prone areas.“
-more at link
 
Lake Christine Fire defendants plead guilty to misdemeanor, face 45 days in jail and $100k restitution
[Richard Miller, 24, and Allison Marcus, 23, pleaded guilty to setting fire to woods or prairie. In return, the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s office dismissed three counts of felony arson and amended a felony count of setting fire to woods or prairie to a misdemeanor.

Three families in the El Jebel area lost their homes in the fire, which burned more than 12,500 acres.]

This was the fire started when these defendants were firing tracer rounds at a shooting range.
 
416 fire was started by Durango & Silverton train, federal investigation finds
[The historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad started the devastating 416 fire that charred 54,000 acres last summer in southwest Colorado, according to a federal lawsuit....

The U.S. Attorney filed suit against the railroad and its operator, American Heritage Railways, Inc., on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday morning.

The lawsuit seeks to recover damages caused by the fire. The United States incurred approximately $25 million in suppression costs and other damages which are still being calculated, the U.S Attorney’s Office said.]
 
First responders granted high priority for COVID-19 testing ahead of wildfire season

“Poudre Fire Authority Fire Chief Tom DeMint said firefighters often finding themselves setting up camp as they battle a blaze for days. Sickness can spread easily in the camps.

“There a common term in the fire service called ‘camp crud,'” DeMint said.

The chief said it is common to see stomach bugs or the common cold spread through those camp sites. This year, it could be different.

“Our fear is that without testing going into these fires, that that camp crud this year could be COVID,” said DeMint.

“It could send a lot of people home from a fire that need to be out in the lines,” added DeMint.”

• the new CDC guidance only applies to first responders showing symptoms.
 
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