[LeArc] ARLB032 Colorado Fires Keep Hams Hopping

[Tony Coniglio]

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> ARLB032 Colorado Fires Keep Hams Hopping
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> ZCZC AG32
> QST de W1AW  
> ARRL Bulletin 32  ARLB032
> >From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  June 10, 2002
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
> SB QST ARL ARLB032
> ARLB032 Colorado Fires Keep Hams Hopping
> 
> Colorado ARRL Section Manager Jeff Ryan, K0RM, says Amateur Radio
> Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers no sooner wrapped up their
> support of efforts to deal with one wildfire when another erupted.
> ARES teams now are helping to support efforts to battle a new fire
> that got out of control over the weekend.
> 
> ''No rest for the weary,'' Ryan said June 10. ''As support for the
> Iron Mountain Fire near Canon City was winding down, a new wildfire
> erupted near Lake George in the mountains approximately 30 miles
> west of Colorado Springs.'' ARES volunteers from Park, Teller, El
> Paso, Jefferson, Douglas and Elbert counties have responded to
> support firefighters, law enforcement and the Red Cross, he said.
> 
> The latest fire--designated the Hayman Fire--is raging in the Pike
> National Forest southwest of Denver and now has consumed some 30,000
> acres. The fire is being considered very active and very dangerous,
> Ryan said. It's being fanned by 30 MPH winds, Ryan said.
> 
> ''Dense smoke from the blaze drifted throughout Front Range cities
> and towns including Denver, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs and
> occasionally reduced visibility to less than one-quarter mile,''
> Ryan reported. He said that more than 1000 homes have been evacuated
> and several thousand more are threatened.
> 
> Late last week, Ryan called Amateur Radio support for the Iron
> Mountain Fire ''nothing short of outstanding.'' More than 1000
> residents were evacuated near Canon City in Fremont County, some 100
> homes and an additional 100 structures were destroyed.
> 
> Members of Fremont County ARES staffed a Red Cross shelter set up to
> serve the evacuated residents in nearby Cotopaxi as well as the
> incident command post and the Deer Mountain Fire Station. Hams from
> Pikes Peak ARES staffed the Red Cross headquarters in Colorado
> Springs.  
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> /EX