After a long-prayed-for rainstorm this afternoon, this just appeared over the Colorado Springs skies: I’m confident there wasn’t a dry eye across the city. Certainly not in my household. Please continue to keep all our friends and neighbors who lost everything in the Waldo Canyon Fire in your prayers. Help Colorado Now is still your… Read more »
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Exclusive: When did the Waldo Canyon Fire start, and when did the feds know it?
As you know, my family and I were evacuated Saturday afternoon on June 23 along with 11,000 other West side/Manitou Springs residents when the Waldo Canyon Fire erupted. According to the Colorado Springs fire public information unit and the city emergency operations center, local phone calls about the emerging blaze first came in around Saturday… Read more »
A personal note: Evacuated from Waldo Canyon Fire
I took this photo of the Waldo Canyon Fire with my iPhone from the Chapel Hills Mall yesterday. Our family is among the 11,000 residents of Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs who have been evacuated in the wake of the Waldo Canyon Fire. We’re homeless, but safe for now — though the kids are devastated… Read more »