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| Rookie firefighter sees own house burn in CO wildfires |
| 2012-06-29 |
| Watched it burn while she went out to protect Estes Park. Even with yesterday's political news, hope springs eternal with young folks (she's 18) like this. Rookie firefighter Emily Franklin battled her first blaze this week and among the casualties was her own house. The fire, one of several wildfires plaguing Colorado, turned her childhood home into cinders and reduced her car to a metal skeleton in the driveway. "This is my first fire and it was my own home," Franklin, 18, told ABC News."Great way to kick off a career." Franklin actually watched her own house going up in smoke while working with her colleagues to help save the town from the fire. |
| Posted by:BA |
| #3 Only spruce fir and aspen left alive in most of the park. I suppose nature's best would be to have it burn and get the cycle going, but I would surely hate too lose my casita at this stage of my life. |
| Posted by: bman 2012-06-29 17:00 |
| #2 bman, 70% beetle kill? It's been 13 years or so since I've been in that area. Maybe a "good" fire would help the beetle situation (not that I'm wishing any of these spread uncontrollably)???? |
| Posted by: BA 2012-06-29 14:47 |
| #1 If helicopters from the High Park fire had not been diverted Estes Park could easily have turned into a Co. Springs scenario. When Rocky Mountain National Park catches on fire it will be the ultimate conflagration with 70% beetle kill and impossible terrain. |
| Posted by: bman 2012-06-29 14:34 |