Dome Fire (CO) - 10/29/10

I came upon this video of the Dome Fire by the Daily Camera Newspaper in Boulder CO. I especially enjoyed the footage of the crew boss talking to his crew before they went up to the line. The fire was first reported on Friday, October 29 2010. There were evacuations ordered that day and there were power outages as well. Evacuations were lifted on Saturday morning (Oct. 30).

The JeffCo air tanker base was in the process of shutting down operations for the season when they got the call about the fire on Oct. 29. However, it only took them about 30 minutes to get the tanker operations up and going. The fire burned 84 acres and according to the Boulder CO Office of Emergency Management, the fire was 100 percent contained at 2:35 PM on Nov. 2, 2010. Note, I wrote the first draft of this article about 7 to 9 days ago, and the Boulder OEM webpage was still reporting on the status of this fire. At the time I posted this article, the Boulder OEM webpage is no longer reporting on the fire, and I am including the link to let you know that I got this information from the Boulder OEM.

Paul Filmer took an absolutely stunning series of photographs of one of a P-2' (T-07) and a SEAT (T-878) working the Dome Fire. His slide show is available at his website (skippycage photography) and may be accessed here.

In addition, there is a slide show of the fire, including tanker photos available at TheDenverChannel.

For more information, see Bill Gabbert reports about this fire here, here, and here.