Fourmile Canyon Fire

See scenes from the Foumile Canyon Fire in Boulder County, Colorado on Sept. 6, 2010. Video by Daily Camera photo staff.

Full coverage online: http://www.dailycamera.com/fourmile-canyon-fire/

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News & Politics

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• fire
• Fourmile fire
• Boulder
• Colorado
• evacuation

[phil656565]

hey look the conspracy theorist removed all his comments lol

[saabaru05]

This fire is devastating due to its proximity to homes and boulder. but to keep things in perspective this fire has burned 6,422 acres, the Hayman fire 138,114 acres. If we can stop the hayman we can stop this fire.

[saabaru05]

@korvelo What the fuck does BP have anything to do with this?

This is simple stuff, dropping a ton of water over a giant fire makes that water evaporate once it hits the heat. The higher the drop the more water evaporates. The big planes have to fly so much higher that much of the water would never make it to the ground. Smaller planes can drop water from lower altitudes making less water evaporate. I know this is probably a lot for your very screwed up mind to understand but its the truth,deal

[saabaru05]

@jose5960 Read my comment to korvelo. It does matter. You dont understand the mechanics of this either just like Korvelo. In fact you guys seem like the same person. The elevation difference is large enough that by the time the water/retardant from a large tanker hit the ground it would be mostly ineffective. Like I said in my other comment its much more efficient for the medium sized planes to fly and fight this fire due to the terrain.

[saabaru05]

@korvelo It does matter. You really dont understand the mechanics of it. If the elevation change was small then yes it wouldent matter but with this fire the elevation difference between a medium sized plane and a large plane is quite big so the quantity of water wont matter. Its much more efficient to fly the medium sized planes for this fire.

[saabaru05]

@korvelo Those sized airplanes cant fly in the tight terrain around four mile canyon. It would be useless. They have to use small planes and even then they are dangerously close to terrain. Its not simple.

[erietigers91]

@supapintofreak labor day evening, it looked like a orange glow

[korvelo]

@CritterGitters4x4 ....MORE WHINING AND EXCUSES, WHAT IS TYPICAL OF BRAIN DEAD MORONS, TO WHOM EVERYTHING SEEMS COMPLICATED.

WITH A FLEET OF 100, 747/C5 SIZE TANKERS A ONE PASS ON A FIRE LIKE THIS WOULD FLOOD ALL THAT AREA ; IT'S THIS SIMPLE...the US has 1000's of useless ships and warplanes, polices barbarians, subsidize china and has no money to protect their own.

Shame on you for allowing it and shame on the serve serving scum that governs AMERICA.

[CritterGitters4x4]

@korvelo you are a ungrateful crybaby, those firefighters are out there protecting and helping everybody even you. Shut the fuck up, do you even know the power of a wildland fire? do you even live near where this happened or even in the west?

[Lightrider22]

@korvelo What's wrong with you? And if its so easy why don't you just pop yourself out there (this would be easy since apparently everything is easy for you) and put it out yourself? You have no clue about much dude and you just made it more than obvious. Primitive effort of garden hoses and buckets? Really? To put out a 100 foot flame over a tree that took 30 seconds to get that way? Then the other 5,000 + burning. Take your medicine and/or grow up. Thank you all who've helped!!!!