Unless one has been in this region, it is hard to explain to people how much fuel is available for the fire. As someone mentioned in some other post. All the way from Walden to Winter Park has suffered a beetle infestation , killing 90% percent of all the lodgepole pine. The Spruce bark beetle has destroyed a good number of the Spruce trees, from what a biologist told me. I have been pulling up images on Google Earth of my old stomping grounds and I had a hard time navigating by memory because I last spent time in the woods when they were all alive. Folks are telling me, second hand, (not vetted) that some folks up there have been refusing to evacuate causing even more problems for the firefighters and LEO's. A bad deal, but a couple of days of cooler weather and some snow should help, then followed by more dry weather with,higher temps...
