My Dad said...

... that there are now 9... NINE wild fires burning in this state. (Colorado.)

So I'm on nine news now to see if I can confirm.

The big fire - High Park Fire has taken off again - it's now 75k -81k acres. and the containment is down to 45%.  It's day 15. Still listing 191 homes destroyed and 1 dead.   BTW the range is because the headline says 75, but in the body of the article it says 81.

A new fire is burning in Estes Park.  It's within the city limits.  <wince>  Only 20 acres, but 21 homes burned.  They are calling this the woodland heights fire.

Then there is a breaking news blurb "Waldo fire (no jokes please)  burning in El Paso County.  This one is west of Colorado springs ( The springs are way south of Denver)  and is 2000 acres and growing. 

I don't currently see any more news articles but I found a link to a map of what they are calling the Springer fire.  This is also west of Colorado springs and looks to be in the mtns somewhere.

Ok I found a site that lists all of Colorado fires.  It is: http://inciweb.org/state/6/#

On here it states that the High park fire is 81,190 acres.

Other fires I haven't mentioned yet: 

Little Sand located in the San Juan National forest- 18k acres.  This is deep in the mtns near our southern boarder. 

Sunrise Mine - way south west - on the Utah boarder.  Listed as active but the details say it's 100% contained as of June 7th - so may no longer be a factor.

Hewlett fire.  Last update was the 6th of June. Some trails were re-closed.  It mentions flare ups and smoldering.   I think this was the fire started by the controlled burn, but I'm not sure.  So it would be contained, but not completely out.   And may be out now as the last update was awhile back.

I can''t find any more news on fires at this time.  

I will update in my life in general tomorrow.