Olde Stage Fire
Location: North of the city limits of Boulder, Boullder Co. CO
Specific Location: Old Stage Road, Lat 40° 5´ 55″ Lon 105° 5´ 55″
Date of Origin: 01/07/2009
Cause: Unknown at this time
Situation as of 01/08/2009 5:30 PM
Personnel: 159
Size: 1,300 acres
Percent contained: 70%
Wind-driven wildfires prompted mandatory evacuations of at least 500 homes. All evacauations have been lifted except the area off of the Old Stage Road.
1 primary residence and 1 outbuilding destroyed
Creeping with occasional flare-ups. Some interior spots still burning.
Note: Boulder temp 50.7 °F updated at 6:30 pm 01/08/09. Humidity 28%. Expected low tonight 18 °F. We report this for all those who think climate change, rather than fuels, drives fires.
by Bob Z.
by Karli L.
Is it Old Stage or Olde Stage?
Karli, it was reported as “Olde”.
I don’t name these things, the fire community does. The naming of fires is a perennial tempest in a teapot, but it is the least of the associated irritations.
And so begins the new 2009 Wildfire Season in the western US: Off and running on the Olde Stage Road!