Today I went to Black Forest to take pictures of where the fire burned. The fire started a couple miles from the school Edith Wolford. The firefighters had to let the houses burn located by the school in order to save the school. The firefighters had a tuff choice to make. They saved both schools in located in Black Forest Edith Wolford and School in the Woods and Black Forest has multiple churches all the churches were also saved during the fire. The firefighters also saved as many homes that they could save. I will be interviewing four specialist sometime next week and interviewing them on their perspective on both Waldo Canyon Fire and Black Forest Fire and I will also be asking them questions about how our moisture levels effect our wildfire season. One of the people I will be interviewing Erin Duran provided me with an After Action Report on the Waldo Canyon Fire.
I will also be posting pictures of the Waldo Canyon Fire on the blog. The pictures are of the fire burning and the night the fire came over the ridge. The pictures of Black Forest are pictures five years after the fire burned. The trees in this area are still black, because they were burned, but there is starting regrowth in these areas. Where I took pictures today there were piles of wood that had been cut down to start cleaning and to also start mitigating. Since the fire people have been doing a lot of mitigating on their properties and other places in Black Forest.
I did conduct another interview with a person who was evacuated during the Waldo Canyon Fire. Her name is Amanda when I asked her questions she said that the amount of moisture did have an effect on our fire season especially, because their was so much tree growth in the area. The area had not seen as much growth in years passed as it saw in 2012. When the fire started it was intense, because their was a drought in June and the tress burned, because they were so dry.
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