Tuesday, June 12, 2012

AMERICA - Colorado and New Mexico Wildfires

"Colorado, New Mexico Emergency Officials Seek More Help Fighting Wildfires" PBS Newshour 6/11/2012

Excerpt

GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Fire managers in Colorado and New Mexico spent the day calling in major new manpower and hoping for help from nature. The developments underscored that fire season has set in with a vengeance in the Southwest.

Thick clouds of smoke drifted across the Northern Colorado sky, as flames consumed more and more of the forest below. The High Park fire is believed to have been sparked early Saturday by a lightning strike 15 miles west of Fort Collins. Since then, the big blaze has covered more than 60 square miles, with nothing to slow it down.

No comments: