Big questions loom after inspection of Grizzly Creek Fire burn scar postindependent.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from postindependent.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An axiom says the flood follows fire. The U.S. Forest Service and partners are working to determine potential problems in the 32,600-acre Grizzly Creek fire burn scar and steps to ease the risks this year in Glenwood Canyon.
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A crew at work repairing power lines south of Grand Lake on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, that were damaged by the East Troublesome fire.
On a summer evening in 2018, a set of tracer rounds from a shooting range ignited a fire near Basalt, Colo. Dry weather let the blaze grow into the Lake Christine Fire, which would burn more than 12,000 acres and destroy about half a dozen homes.
It also burned three of four transmission lines running into Aspen. If the fourth had gone down, the city could have lost electricity for weeks, according to Holy Cross Energy, the local power supplier.
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A plan by Ascendigo Autism Services to develop 126 acres in eastern Missouri Heights near El Jebel for a summer camp and year-round activities center for autistic children is now before Garfield County planning officials for review.
Before the plan was even submitted in late January by the Carbondale-based nonprofit organization, though, a group of nearby residents organized in opposition to the plans.
Among their chief concerns is that they view the development as a business operation in a rural, residential area that would generate excess traffic, impact the local water supply and potentially create a wildfire hazard.