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The smell of smoke is in the air again. And as I drive down to work, I hear about a small fire that ignited on Sugarloaf Road. Fortunately, the fire fighters jump on it quickly and snuff it out when it is only around seven acres. But thinking about how…
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Block party! The flyer evoked memories of neighborhood families gathering together in a mid western suburb with kids playing jump rope, hamburgers grilling on the grill, and people sharing a beer on a hot summer day. Yet this flyer instead advertised a get together in a rural part of Colorado…
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The Cold Springs Wildfire of 2016 and Colorado’s largest wildfire have one thing in common. They both were started by a campfire that had not been put out properly. Perhaps that is why Colorado enacted a new law on July 1 called the Campfire Law. Disastrous Consequences of Ignorance Two years…
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Glancing down at my car thermometer, I saw a number I’d never seen before. 101. As in 101 degrees. As soon as I got out of the car, the heat hit me, like a blast furnace shooting hot dry air at me. People who live in the east will say…
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