Colorado wildfires: update # 4

As of about 8 PM on June 29 when I last accessed inciweb's Waldo Fire Page, the fire had burned 17,053 acres and was 25% contained with 347 houses being destroyed. Some evacuation orders have been lifted as of yesterday, but I understand that some evacuation orders may still be in place. The Waldo Fire is burning in El Paso County CO near the Pike National Forest.

I'd like to thank a good friend of mine who sent me a link to a photo gallery of some 75 photos from a Denver Post blog. I should warn you that you will see pictures of burning houses. Starting about photograph 50 or so, you will begin to see some photos of tanker ops in the form of the MAFFs C-130a, other air tankers, and some helitankers. Go here for the photo gallery

report on Waldo Fire from Denver Channel, second body found

As of about 8 PM on June 29, the High Park Fire had burned 87,284 acres and is 85% contained. See this inciweb page.

Note at the time I wrote this on the evening of June 29, there has been high demand for the inciweb servers so the inciweb web site may be unresponsive.

Federal Disaster declared for CO wildfires

brief updates on other CO wildfires

Eagle Fire near Aspen CO

Thanks to Michael Archer's Firebombers Publications Blog on June 29, 2012 for the other media references.

Last but by no means least, Bill Gabbert of Wildfire Today wrote about Pres. Obama's visit to CO to take a look at the Waldo Canyon Fire and MAFFS deployment