Four Mile Canyon Fire – Better News
In today’s 8AM MDT news release there is much better news on the fire. The weather was better than expected and crews were able to expand containment to 56% from 30%.
Further: “An infrared flight was flown during the night. … The results of last night’s flight show several areas of isolated heat, but no large pockets of intense heat as was seen previously.”
Quick Fire Facts:
- Date started: 09/06/2010
- Location: 5 miles W of downtown Boulder, CO
- Percent Contained: 56%
- Number of Personnel: 1096, 22 crews
- Equipment: 111 engines, 38 water tenders, 1 dozer
- Cause: Human (under investigation)
- Size: 6,427 acres
- Estimated Containment Date: September 13, 2010
- Aircraft: helicopters 3 large, 2 medium, 1 small
- Retardant: (156,012 gallons) cumulative
- Injuries to Date: 7 (all minor)
- Cost to Date: $ 4,900,000
If the weather holds, a much worse disaster has been averted by a rapid, effective response. If the weather gets bad, the resources are now available to hold while more resources are brought in.
