Hello All: Colorado thank you for all of your prayers. I have no clue how and where 32,000 people would go when evacuated. On the fire by USAF/Colorado Springs there has been 379 home burned. By what I am seeing on the TV, this was in a whole neighborhood. Everything looked like it was burned to the ground. I have seen many storm pictures in my life and just looks worse. It is sounding like this one was started by people. The fire 60 miles north of me has burned over 300 structures (248 homes). That area did get an inch of rain but that did not help. The fire is over 61,000 acres. The fire in Boulder that is about 15 miles away is not that large, it has burned 300 acres and is 30 percent contained. A new fire up in Eagle county did start today, I do not have that much information on it but I say where there was helicopter with a fire bucket in the area when it started.Weather is still hot, in the 90's.
Obama will in Colorado tomorrow to look at the damage. I need to check on the rescue units in the Springs area to see how they are holding up. We have not thought of a evac plan in a few years, we did have one after 911. It is time for an update on a evac plan. Three of the four dogs are micro chipped. I know we need to get the daughters dog microchiped but just do not have the time. One good thing about her dog, it only comes to family members and I think is would just always run back to us no matter who has the dog. Thanks for the reminder on the evac plan. mark ________________________________ From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Fla Minister displays humor for Debby Wow that's a lot of people Mark. Where do they all go when then evacuate that many? I hope you have an emergency plan in effect, and that all your dogs have collars and ID's and are micro-chipped. That was the biggest problem that CA had with dogs and cats a couple of years ago with there fires, they either escaped or got left behind, or rescued, they didn't know who hundreds of them belonged to for lack of IDs. Hence those not claimed within the first week were put in shelters and put up for adoption. One story was so sad, an elderly man landed in the hospital for two weeks and couldn't claim his dog. Then a couple of months later, when they were showing a newscast of the dogs saved, he saw his and it was adopted out. The new owners refused to give the dog back and legally there was nothing that he could do about it. Anyway, I sure hope the temperatures go down and you get some real good rain and they can start containing those nasty fires. Hey, try the rain dance, LOL! Stay safe and be well. Peggy & The Girls -------Original Message------- From: Mark Strassler Date: 6/27/2012 12:58:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Fla Minister displays humor for Debby Hello: We can use the rain in Colorado. 12+ wild fires, over 180 structures loss, tonight in the waldo canyon area, 32,000 people in the USAF, Colorado Springs, Manatue Springs evacuated. The fires in the Colorado Springs area are just amazing to watch on TV, it is just a huge red glow like you see in the TV movies. Two of my Chi's did come from Rescue Units in the Colorado Springs area. Colorado currently has over 1/2 of all of the United States forest fire fighting equipment/people fighting fires. I live near the regional airport which stages most of the air tankers. They been flying morning to dusk over the past few weeks. We have had five days of 100+ temperatures. My chi's are safe in the house but there are days the smoke from the Hyde Park fire Fort Collins which is 60 miles north of me is bad outside. It did close the regional airport for a day last week. When I came home from work tonight I saw a C-130 military tankersjust after takeoff and flying to a fire up in the Boulder/NCAR area. They can dump about 3000 gallons of water/slury in one drop. So, if you have extra rain with no lighting, we can use it now. Mark ________________________________ From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:02 PM Subject: [Chihuahuas] Fla Minister displays humor for Debby >From Kelly Jordan/The Times-Union A message on a sign at the San Jose Baptist Church on San Jose Boulevard sums up the feelings of many as rain totals continue to rise as North Florida residents deal with the ongoing rains from Tropical Storm Debby
