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After the Waldo Canyon Fire the neighborhoods affected would have the concern of flooding, because when it would rain, but the water would flow into the town of Manitou, Woodland park and into other places where the fire burned. When it would rain in Colorado these places would be under flash floods warnings. This would continue for 2-3 years after the fire. The affects after the Black Forest fire would be people did not have a lot of privacy with their trees, because the of trees burned where people had to rebuild their houses. They are still getting used to not having as many trees as they did before the fire. There is regrowth happening in the Black Forest area, but it will take more years for all the trees to grow back or for most of the trees to come back. People in Black Forest had to cut down a lot of trees of their properties that had been burned by the fire. They also learned how zeroscaping and mitigating their property. After the Black Forest Fire the water in the river that runs from Black Forest to across the interstate over to Woodmen an area in Colorado close to Waldo Canyon fire. People noticed the water in the river was black. The water was black, because of the pollution from the Black Forest and what they were using to put the fire out. When the Waldo Canyon fire was burning the people over in Black Forest could breathe in the smoke, especially when the wind change directions and was blowing the smoke from the fire over to the Black Forest area. From both fires and being on opposite sides of town, both sides were feeling the affects from both fires. The flooding has gotten better over in the Waldo Canyon fire burn scar, because their has continually been regrowth over the six years. Manitou and Woodland Park are no longer affected by the flooding as they used to be, but occasionally their still will be flash flood warnings. Especially when it is pouring in Colorado.