Cam Sites are Burning for You - Colorado Wildfires 2020

After flaking and hesitating Jared and James decide it's time to poke ol' reality with a pitchfork and express themselves - pouring over the fresh trauma of northern Colorado's 2020 fire season. These recent disasters provide a case study for what has happened over much of the western U.S. this year, and serve as an omen of future fire in the region.

All the Big Ones are here in this scorcher of an episode: Pine Gulch, Lefthand Canyon, Mullen, Middle Fork, East Troublesome, and the Truckasaurus of Larimer County itself; the Cameron Peak Fire! Who will win the race to be the biggest, most destructive inferno of the Rocky Mountain State? How can we profit from unparalleled environmental collapse and compounding human misery!? Does it have to be cope or rope? Some of those questions are answered here!

 

{---With regards  to sources - I pulled from gads of articles and personal experiences in relation to this episode, but much of my technical information came directly from incident command (https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6964/) and accounts/experiences from the excellent local reporters at The Loveland Reporter-Herald (https://www.reporterherald.com/) and Fort Collins Coloradoan (https://www.coloradoan.com/) who did so much to keep their communities informed through these crazy times - thank you!  - james---}