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Tonight I interviewed a Fire Chief who worked both the Waldo Canyon Fire and the Black Forest fire. He was the person in charge during the Waldo Canyon fire; he was giving the orders to the firefighters on where they needed to go in order to fight fire. When I interviewed Mike he said mention that Waldo Canyon also had a personal affect on him, because he mentioned that neighbors lost their houses and things that were important to them. Both fires were human caused, but not exactly sure what started the fire. The resources were not scarce they had enough resources in order to put the fires out and they were assembling resources quickly. Colorado and Texas do not have a fire marshall over the fire stations and there are only two states. The rest of the states have fire marshall. Mike did mention that Waldo Canyon area still suffers from flooding occasionally and Black Forest also was faced with flooding as a concern. For people to help with prevention for wildfires people should mitigate their properties more and mitigating their properties will reduce the fuel loading for fires. Education is a big thing for people to understand that they need more space around their houses, because if there is a fire than with more space firefighters can save people’s houses and can fight the fire around the house. The last thing for prevention is to do mitigation on water shed and doing more to educate people and to work together on the mitigation and education. Once when we train the public people to respond better and to act better when there is an emergency. Training our first responders to do more and be more equipped for the future. The Black Forest fire was the most destruction fire in Colorado’s history. The Hayman fire is still the first largest fire Colorado has seen. Thursday I have two interviews and then on Saturday morning I will have my last interview.