The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles
-
Upload
meryl-runion-rose -
Category
Travel
-
view
937 -
download
1
description
Transcript of The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles
![Page 1: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles
A Private Experience of a Community Calamity
![Page 2: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
My first hint of trouble
![Page 3: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
A Closer Look
![Page 4: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Too Weird
![Page 5: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Way Too Close to Home
![Page 6: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
And one half hour later
![Page 7: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
It was a smoke signal that said “grab your stuff and go!!!”
![Page 8: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Our House as We Left:Those aren’t clouds
![Page 9: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Some watched our mountains burn with this kind of view
For us, it was about figuring out what was happening from fire maps and expert briefings
![Page 10: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
And pictures posted online like this one of the Manitou Evacuation. Our house is five miles up that
highway.
![Page 11: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Until Monday, when I discover that the Cascade Volunteer Fire Department has a Facebook page with
pictures
My favorite hiking trail. I cried.
![Page 12: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
And Tuesday, When We Went to the Woodland Park Wal-Mart.
Those aren’t clouds.
There was no way we’d miss the 4 PM briefings that day
![Page 13: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
But the 4 PM briefing didn’t tell as much as a wind gust we noticed in Woodland Park, and this email
from our son in Iowa sent at 3:45
We tuned in to the scanners and listened as the changing winds changed fates
“They’ll feel that in Colorado Springs in ten minutes” Steve said.
![Page 14: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The Fire has Many Fingers:We’re Evacuated and Go to Erie
![Page 15: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Camping out in Erie
• Seven people, six cats, two baths, three bedrooms. Surprisingly comfortable.
• Poor cell service, internet and local phones go down regularly. People wanting updates. We do our best.
![Page 16: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
We Get to Go Home:Few indications of what had happened
![Page 17: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
One of Many Happy Neighbor Reunions
Always happy to see each other, but never
quite so happy as today.
![Page 18: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
EXPLORING OUR PYRAMID MOUNTAIN STOMPING GROUNDS:
The Original Fire Line
![Page 19: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
The Fire Line That Held –Further From Home
![Page 20: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Burned on the left, slurry and green on the right
![Page 21: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
A Favorite Old Trail is a Fire Line That Held
![Page 22: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Still Some Wildlife in the Area
We also had a bear come up on our deck.
![Page 23: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Precarious trees
![Page 24: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Before
![Page 25: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
After
![Page 26: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Our treasured trail…
![Page 27: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Firefighter Thank-you Signs Are Everywhere
![Page 28: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Cat Cranials: Good Post Fire Medicine
![Page 29: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
My Almost Daily Trails are Closed
![Page 30: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Our Next Challenge: Flooding and Ash
![Page 31: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Free Sandbags Anyone?
![Page 32: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
But Life Does Go On. This Sticky Geranium Grew in the Week After the Fire
![Page 33: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
We Have New Heroes(We probably wouldn’t be home
now without them)
![Page 34: The Cascade Waldo Canyon Fire Chronicles](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061120/5465e1dcaf795982288b5689/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
And While I Might Not Be Able to Go See How our Sacred Scarred Lands are Doing, Our Fire Fighters
Post Pictures that Give Heart
And for many of us, our open hearts is one of the greatest treasures we keep from the fire.
Gratitude and thanks.