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5 Day Timelapse - Waldo Canyon Fire - June 23–28, 2012 . The Waldo Canyon fire was a forest fire that started approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 23, 2012, and was declared 100 percent contained on July 10, 2012, after no smoke plumes were visible on a small portion of the containment line on Blodgett Peak.
The Waldo Canyon Fire is a forest fire that started 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Colorado Springs on June 23, 2012, on July 8, 2012 the fire is 100 percent contained on 15,364 acres (24 sq mi; 62 km 2) of US Forest Service land. The fire has caused the evacuation of over 32,000 residents of Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs and Woodland Park ...
The Colorado State Forest Service was established by the Colorado General Assembly in 1955 and oversees response to wildfires in Colorado. [ not verified in body ] Part of the 2002 Colorado wildfires that burned nearly 360,000 acres, the Hayman Fire , was the largest wildfire in Colorado state history for nearly 20 years [ 4 ] [ 5 ] until the ...
This was the most destructive fire in the state's history at the time, surpassing the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire which also began near Colorado Springs. It was surpassed in 2021, when the Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes in Boulder County, in Superior and Louisville.
Evacuation orders were lifted for the Farm subdivision of Colorado Springs more than three hours after a "heavy fire in heavy fuels" started near I-25 and Interquest Parkway.
PHOTO: Colorado Springs Fire Department crews arrived in Teller County, Colo. to help with the Highland Lake Fire, Oct. 29, 2024. (Teller County Sheriff's Office)
A wildfire destroyed between 500 and 1,000 homes in Boulder County, Colorado, on Thursday, NBC News reported.
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.