Downtown Superior on fire
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- Broomfield police officers capture the wildfires surrounding businesses and homes in downtown Superior Thursday.
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My heart goes out to the people of Superior and Louisville. Sending much love from Australia 🇦🇺🦘🐨
@Love and Tennessee - Facts don’t care about feelings.
@@dannyr.951 and the fact is, people like Summit are soulless and lacking compassion.
Prayers to everyone one caught in this fire and firefighters🙏🙏🙏
I am praying for the victims and for a speedy end to the fires. 🇺🇸
If aint one thing its another. God bless everyone there in Boulder and all other communities. Pray for rain and heavy snow to get these fires out fast.🙏🙏🙏❤❤
Omg, this is horrific. My brother in law is 50 miles north of this fire. I feel terrible for the families who lost everything. Praying there will be no casualties.🙏🏼
@Summit Support Service My family is way more important than UA-cam! We spoke with him already. Unbelievable you would even say that. This is how we found out he was 50 miles north. 🤦♀️
@Summit Support Service Summit, it may take you an hour and half to type a once sentence comment, but not everyone is a dullard.
I remember having to evacuate with a carload of stuff I could grab 15 yrs ago.... most of it was stuff I could live without but my brain was so scattered I couldn't think properly... the only updates I received were watching the news to see if the helicopters captured my house burned or not... went back 3 days later to see the property surrounded with burn marks... they saved our complex.... living in front of multimillion dollar homes owned by celebrities helped... they hired their own crews to come in and help....
I lost everything as a kid in a housefire.. it was 3 days after the best Christmas I ever had...... it is very traumatizing.. these families need help and moral support... May God bless them and help them stay strong...
(Update: number of hosues destroyed has grown to 1,000+ Still no reported casualties. Fire is not contained, but it isnt growing at the rate it was.) Here is some info: This fire is currently on an unstoppable rampage through metro Colorado. Over 1000+ homes destroyed with no hope of stopping it in sight. Entire cities... big cities.. have been leveled to the ground. Cant bring in any form of air support due to the 70 to 110 mph winds and extremely low visibility. Most destructive fire ever in Colorado. Luckily we have hope of snow coming tomorrow night. Hopefully, it is out by then, but no one is holding their breath. No deaths are yet reported, likely won't stay that way for long... This fire started when a wind gust upwards of 110 ripped a powerline out of the ground and it landed in the brush, igniting it. Considering we haven't had any significant moisture since summer it spread uncontrollably quick. IF YOU ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE, PLEASE DO!!! A lot of deaths that happen in a fire like this are from people not evacuating. SO PLEASE DO!!!!
Thank you.
It's snowing right now
@@erick13es Oh GOOD!!!
Could have set up a line of trucks and sent a water mist into the fast blowing wind to bring up the humidity even create clouds that would bring rain or snow. The incompetence of Government has grown to epidemic levels.
Or this was an orchestrated event.
A large petroleum-centric area in Alberta, Canada almost burned to the ground a few years back. Countless small towns in northern California, Oregon, British Columbia, have had massive fires decimate massive swaths of area. This is happening all over the northwest and California. This is the new normal.
Texas and Oklahoma also just had wind driven wildfires.
Slave Lake, Fort McMurray, High Level, and so much of BC last summer. Western USA. Been a lot in the past few years for sure. I hope all the rain and snow in Cali and Nevada will help next summer.
@@josephalberta1145 It's more likely to do harm than good. It only helps if it melts slowly enough to be able to permeate the ground. A drought-affected area like that will not be able to absorb moisture very well. If it melts quickly, there will be flash flooding, landslides, and mudslides.
@Summit Support Service Thankfully, nobody cares about the Red States anymore, and when they have fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes they can deal with those disasters on their own and without any aggravating interference from the federal government.
@@hebneh your government has immigration laws that pleague the U.S with diversity in acceptance so whats the difference between a legal and illegal ? what is it that your fighting for when your country runs on borrowed money and doesnt have the brains to be industrious, independant and nationalist? you don't have culture you cant print your own currency, you are socially engineered by social media, your demmoralized to the point you accept interracial breeding while you laugh and participate with the very same people that made you and your ancestors life's miserable as we keep getting pushed to the NWO and you cant do smack about it. so what is it that your fighting for that your worried soo much about "red" states? whether its red or blue your gubberment will keep infringing on your rights no matter what. their is powerful people with an agenda who run the money and these people arent your friends. they want to destroy every one of our tribes by interracial breeding and demoralization while using our physical labor for their own gains through paper money. snap out of it
That's so scary. Praying for you guys.
Hope everyone and their pets got out in time. ❤️
I hope and pray that everyone was able to escape, and they were able to take their pets! There are most likely people still traveling for the holidays, with their pets still inside. I am praying they were somehow able to escape or were rescued!!
@@Devoidarex Your name suits you to a T.
@@Devoidarex so what have you done besides whine in the comments?
Praying for everyone's safety. 🙏🏽
Brave police and firefighters… driving right into the danger! 🙁
This is the equivalent of the fire we had in Fort Mac, insane. I pray for all
the Fort Mac fires started because of a downed power line?
@@coryleblanc it's sounding like the same thing, they got crazy winds and reports of downed power lines as well
@@306-fromthestix such a shame, can we put them underground in the future?
Praying and words don't put fires out!!! Water does!!! Where's the water bombers and heli- bombers??? I live in Southern British Columbia, and we just had major fires that divastated two towns!!! Prayers don't put out fires, people do! Maybe you should be thanking them, than sitting there and praying!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO WORKED IN THE EXTREME HEAT, AND WORKED TO COMPLETE EXHAUSTION!!! THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATED EFFORTS!!! From Southern British Columbia 🇨🇦 My thoughts go out to those losing their homes.
Colorado is so beautiful. It makes me so sad.
Wild fire in a city where all the resources are right there.
I grew up on a sheep and cattle ranch in the mountains of NM. We had fires every year but because we managed the land, keeping sheep, goats and cattle on the grasses, the mix of these animals made the grass/brush fires a non event. No we didn’t over graze. We rotated animals from pasture to pasture to keep a balance. What’s amazing it to see how much more healthy grasslands are when there is livestock on it that is balanced with rain and drought. During drought we rotated as soon as they. Grass had been ate over once.
Anyway, I’ve watched since the environmentalist activist pushed ranchers off the land by pushing BLM fees and taxes so high as to bankrupt the owners. As soon as the livestock were removed you could see brush and weedy grasses begin to be chocked on dead growth. Instead of healthy land… it created a tinder box, one that when it burns, it does so hot as to sterilize the soil permanently damaging the land.
These kinds of fires can be eliminate with proper land management.
Reduce the fuels so the heat and embers quickly burn out without gaining the kind of flame intensity we continue to see in these fires.
Another important aspect of this is residential construction. I own a custom home construction company. When we build in high density areas, building code requires us to use firewalls and unvented roofing assemblies. The unvented roofing designs keeps flames from entering the attic area and quickly causing the roof to catch fire. In additon the walls are covered in products that are flame resistant. For example. We use products like Fiber Cement over Zip wall sheathing. The fiber cement looks like wood siding but is far more fire resistant on higher end homes we can also use long board (a thick steel siding that looks like wood). We also use brick and stone depending on the what the plans call for. If all the homes and commercial buildings are designed to this standard along with proper land management, it really reduces the impact of range and type fires.
This was towns, not pastures. There is no grazing in towns Bret.
@@ToddDouglasFox all around it Todd. The fires were grass and brush fires that spread.
My mothers family lived near San Bernardino CA. Until the 80’s they kept livestock on the open land. The foothills and mountains. Grass fires were much more easily controlled. Since they removed the livestock those areas have burnt so heavily as to cause permanent loss of some areas of vegetation and extreme erosion when it does rain.
My sister lives in an area north of San Bernardino. Very much like the Colorado area that just burned. They are reintroducing livestock in some areas to “test” the fire control.
Go to Europe in many areas and you’ll see they keep agriculture and the towns working hand in hand. It works.
@@bret9741 apples to apples. I’ve been in every area you’re talking about, including Europe. Land owners in the U.S. would have to be convinced to buy cattle or allow their land to be used for cattle. The govt is not going to try to purchase up all surrounding land. Additionally, many developers have purchased the land but in many areas not done much to develop it, while overdeveloping in some areas - as is typical of them. Yours is an apples to shoelaces comparison. I’m not saying the world cannot change overnight and be nearly perfect, I’m exactly that type of irritating eternal optimist, I’m giving you the facts that you now have to turn into apples because shoelaces won’t do it. Lastly, the prairies you are speaking of do not and has not fed cattle and cannot do so, we are talking years minimum to convert land even if landowners agreed. We don’t have years obviously. Feel free to “try” again.
@@ToddDouglasFox Mark Nelson, California Rangeland Trust: Livestock grazing can lower wildfire risk and reduces the impact of fires by slowing down the speed of spreading flames. Livestock often leave land better than they found it, providing benefits to the state’s watersheds and helping to cultivate healthy soils. An added benefit: they don’t rely on toxic herbicides, petroleum products or chemicals
@@bret9741 who said that the ideas you promote in your comments are not beneficial when they will be used? Keep trying.
Had this happen in Canada too many times in recent years; Lytton, Fort MacMurray & Slave Lake. I hope everyone gets out safe! I also hope government agencies help better than ours did...
Lol who u think caused the fire dat stuff not natural
Me to
The government does this. Nothing is coincidence.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"-
Hope everyone is safe
but this happened because of 1 downed power line
Lytton fire: I stopped in Lytton from Lillooet for fuel before heading home to Chilliwack. When I stopped in Hope at a store, people were talking about Lytton being burned out, nothing left!!! I was in disbelief this had happened. I was just there an hour and a half ago fueling up! People told me it was gone that fast! I was in shock sitting on my truck. Fort Mac was a big one as well. Best wishes to all
What is known January 1, 2022 at about 5:00 PM: 3 missing. Some pets perished. About 1,000 structures lost. Many residents and businesses have lost everything. The snow did not come in time, instead the winds came. The theory that it started due to downed electric power lines has been investigated as false. There were some downed cables but it was not electric. The cause of the fire(s) is unknown at this time. Obviously residents did what they could to get out quickly, which is what saved lives. Nothing could stop this once it started. Devastating.
That's so sad. I don't understand, why doesn't every single fire engine in the state respond until the whole thing is surrounded and put out?
Crazy for a fire to happen at the end if December! Usually happens during summer months
The odds were high but finally, everybody just happened to light up at the same time.
@@yourhandlehere1 yeah.. and especially those strong winds fanning the fire!
Global warming has strong influences on weather patterns
@@graderboy41 well,grass dries up every fall/winter from frost, so there can be these fires every year. I think the strong winds is the problem now
Tragic. Reminds me or a couple years back in Cali when fires destroyed entire towns......also same in Oregon.
Yeah, when the cars and homes melted but the trees weren’t burned! Yet they called it a “wild” fire!
A few years back? Every Western stare had horrific fires this year! Whole mountain towns burned.
Oh man… lots of fixed incomes in rural areas, lots of folks who won’t be able to afford fire insurance and health insurance, or the resulting rising rents!
Man, is the US even going to have small towns or small businesses anymore? Or are we all going to be wage slaves for Amazon?
@@freeheeler09 well, I cant remember was when the fires were. Oregon on fire, Cali on fire. Homes burned but, trees left unburned. Cars.....burnt and some melted. Whole towns destroyed. Sorry, that I cant recall when it was. I know it was tragic. So, you are gonna hold it against me that I cant recall exactly the year or dates. It coulda been 6 months ago, a year ago, 2 years or more. I dont recall. All I recall was there was a fire. You must be young. I am an old fart with not such a good memory any more. So, 6 months or more from now I will probably remember there was a fire on CO but not recall where and possibly not recall when. So give us old farts some slack. .......
.and get off my lawn.
@@lilyrose7082 haarp, dew take your pick..chemtrails etc.
2021 keeps going...
This can't be from today Friday right? This is from yesterday? It's snowing heavily here now.
Do some critical thinking
@@alcar2851 how empty must your life be?
If you were actually here in the area like you say, you’d know this video wasn’t from today.
Get safe GOD BLESS YOU AND HELP YOU ESCAPE THE FIRE
You know what I don't get it's how the f*** is this stuff burning when there's no trees around it's go figure.
DEWs
Looks like the build back better program is about to start.
I'd like to start with grid streets so it doesn't take an hour and half to evacuate a subdivision with curvilinear streets (circular roads that don't go anywhere but in a loop), cul de sacs/dead ends, and only one or two access points, and it takes 15 minutes to walk (if you can walk) to the house behind you.
-a retired transportation planner who tried to get suburbs to build traditional street grids....
@@GoGreen1977 I hear that. I'm glad I have fire roads and trails that are accessable on my property because there's miles of woods around here.
@@GoGreen1977 LOL... Probably the best response to a conspiracy theorist.
It could be that or else the entire area migh be reclassified as an "uninhabitable"..no humans allowed... DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE...OF COURSE
@@ShainAndrews
That all you got? Buzzwords?
So sad to see this happening, please stay safe
It is devastating to read about all the violent weather patterns in the U.S. and particularly the loss experienced by families that are displaced. Where and how do you begin to rebuild your lives. In Canada here, we do care. 🇨🇦
I’m so sorry 😣
Thank the good Lord that nobody got hurt or died.
Imagine if Communicative Technology didn't alert anyone, everyone would have died.
🟥 Prayers are what dumb people offer because they are too stupid to offer any helpful advice.
🟧 If God has a plan prayers are BS.
🟨 Asking for prayers then going to the doctor is cheating.
🟩 Prayer: How to convince yourself & others that your helping, when you're really doing nothing.
🟦 When prayers Fail, Terrorists play god.
🟪 Your stupid Spells don't work.
@@SolutionsNotPrayers didn’t mean to trigger you. Happy new year
@@SolutionsNotPrayers my spells seem to work just fine. Maybe you're out of mana.
I was just there last week. SMH. God bless Colorado
Of course this is a terrible event and we hope for the best, but this is the result of unchecked, out of control development for profit. The plains have always had grass fires, now there's hundreds of thousands of people out there. It's just like the Colorado Springs fires years ago.
The lizard people that control everything want us to suffer and set these fires on purpose
Thanks for your post. It is indeed a reminder of the dangers of unchecked, over development. Just like the fire storms in California.
There is a Tesla market right therein the video that explains it
@@geocam2 How about not building at all? But yes, you are right. Bad decision based in greed.
What was there before they built your home? Profit motive, isn't that why you go to work every day? Please!
Damn, that is crazy. Hope there are no casualties for real. 😬😬😬🙏🙏🙏
Yikes I’m sorry that this keeps happening
That construction right behind the Tesla, my dad had a crew do landscaping over there
No rain this year or something?
I don't see any fire trucks?
Demomrats defund them.. don't you remember?
It's a 55 second video what do you expect??? Time to go get yourself checked for that head injury don't you think??
Thanks for the random video.
That’s nuts!
Fires are still raging?
This is so sad 😞
That's surreal. Horrible.
Damn, Colorado taking a lot of Ls these days
They support JB. They deserve it.
UNBELIEVABLE. JUST UNBELIEVABLE.
any word when it may be contained, put out?
Bless all families, pets and recovery of memories😓
So sad!!!
December 31st and there's not an inch of snow on the ground?
Stay safe everyone
Well, an update about 24 hours later and it's snowing hard so hopefully it helps. I feel blessed(or just lucky) it missed me.
Woooooow what a nightmare!
I work at the petsmart in Superior the officer turns down the road I've been taken to work the last 13 years.
We need better land management or this will happen more often
😢🙏
How is everything on fire ?
Is the a flat scrub land?
Holly crap...
Dear Lord send snow to fire out ,help your people, please !
💔
Sad
I have to wonder about the mine fire that is burning underground right where this fire started. There is a bore-hole right at the intersection where the fire started. They test for the temp in the mine there. It's been a few years since I checked, but the last temp several years ago was 1750F.
Remember Storm King Mountain was started by a coal seam fire.
Isn't this drive near Flatirons Mall?
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😢
This is from a power line
more than one i believe
Prayers for everyone affected, this is some serious stuff right here.
What's also serious is those cop cars are gonna need new engine air filters real quick after a few days driving through that smoke!
truly apocalyptic!
How? Isn't this WINTER?
Very dry semi arid place. Many people don't realize the Denver Area is essentially a high desert.
Is there even any way at all to stop fires like these once they've started? They just grow bigger and bigger don't they?
Not really. It’s much more important to remove the fuel that burns so hot. Prior to the ranches that once kept livestock on these area, there were large herd of bison and large numbers of wildlife that helped keep the brush and grasses from building up. Also, the native Americans often started fires yearly to clean up the grassy and brushy fuels.
Today you sometimes see cattle but few sheep or goats eating the vegetation and the private landowners who own it today or the government owned land is seldom cleaned up of the growth.
Once this fuel source catches on fire, and we have higher winds, the fires move very quickly and burn at very high temperatures. The flying embers spread fires into towns and cities. Once a few building catch, the fires gain momentum.
The best way to reduce this is livestock, especially sheep and goats going through an area a couple of times a year along with controlled burns.
As far as what cities can do. Homes and commercial buildings can be build more fire resistant. In our nation we use ventilated attics that draw air into them from the soffit vents and vent the heat out through roof vents or ridge vents. If we seal up the attics and use fire resistant materials, this significantly reduces the chances of a home burning.
@@bret9741 Oh okay thanks for the response
STOP BUILDING HOMES SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is there something on fire?
Wildfire Sprinklers
Was the Costco saved?
What a mess
I wonder if rand paul is going to vote against federal aid to this state?
Has the guard been called in? Oh my god these people need help
Demonrats , Defunded the police and the armed forces ...why are you expecting help??
@@gatoborracho4572 you’re not wrong
@@kari8187 It's sad...but it is true..
Talk about cataclysmic even wow
I’m on the east coast, I’ve never seen a fire like this. How is a fire that bad started?
Extremely high wings knocked over a powerline, the dry weather and dry vegetation plus the high wind made the fire spread extremely fast
📚 Revelations
@@kitsachie. Tyler with the correct answer.
Cigarette butt
@@ReturnJaguar what do you mean by revelations?
So what cause the fire 🔥!! Shits crazy
I'm praying for all of the fire victims 🙏. But what can't figure out is where are all of the fire departments f I'm the videos on you tube to the videos from tv news ,there aren't any fire trucks and fire fighters putting out the wild fires what's going on in?
Dayum
Has anyone figured out how the fires started?
Direct Energy Weopons or you could follow the money. Smart meters? Only a certain area burned?
Ignore the crazy conspiracies.
It was 110mph wind gusts in a drought stricken area. No aliens required.
It Was a downed power line that sparked and ignited dry brush
@@UncleJimmyOutWest ...and the earth is flat?
Mock truth yet make extra ordinary claims such as a power line & dry brush 😂 holey ©|¬Г¡§t is that stupid. Talk about Conspiracy b.s., the lame excuses given are the conspiracy b.s.
They call it local warming!
Come on snow!!
After this is over and done with, change your cars air filter.
God please save the first responders and only them
I feel horrible for all those people and I'm very sorry for all the property and belongings they lost but if you wouldn't build your houses 10 ft apart you wouldn't catch every single house in the neighborhood on fire that's just the way of the world
What prayers .. Mothernature is clearly in Revenge Mode
Looked like VR
Hopefully they can get super scooters in their and the 747.
that tesla symbol though.
Stop burning down the buildings!
Please help pets ....
fuck pets help humans
you cant love animals if you eat them
Is this because of the I-70 Truck Driver sentence reduction of 10 years?
Seriously what the fuck is going on out there
Figure it out. Over development and abuse of the land.
😢😥😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wonder "WHO" Started these fires this time.....
Fire is a natural occurrence in these grasslands. All the people living there isn't.
Downed power lines from the wind
i dont understand. wild fire usually happens in wooded areas... how are urban cities are burning?
Here's the recipe:. Exceptional drought + high winds + unusually warm weather + a spark, = rapid uncontrolled fire.
My father has water. Shall I send some?
Hope everyone is safe.
Area looks like a suburban hell though...without the fire! Was that a 10-lane street in front of that tesla building?!?
Walk score must be like -20.
A corporate cluster fuck. A temple to excess.
Great place to raise a family, great people, school and outdoors, don't hate, the population of this part of the state is the healthiest in the nation, look it up.
20 years ago none of that shit existed. Hell, even 10 year's ago. Mabey one day the idiot's who reside in this country will learn to think. Mabey folks will realize that mass Overdevelopment of drought prone grasslands and forests isn't the wisest decision. I grew up in that state and left because of the Overdevelopment. It's absolutely disgusting. Destroying beautiful high plains countryside for subdivisions and strip malls....because everyone wants to live in Colorado. If you ask me...I think mother nature just struck back. I've seen so many wildfires when I lived in that state. In the mountains, the plains and the valleys. Colorado is extremely fire prone and grasslands wild fires are especially common in the the region that just got torced. Mabey one day people will think before they develop, think before they buy and put stewardship and conservation above profits and convenience. Colorado has been decimated by Overdevelopment. So much of what made Colorado special has been literally destroyed. Glad I left though. Colorado ain't the center of the Universe. I've found better states with a much more hospitable climate. Those droughts and wildfires suck. It's out of control and the wildfires are linked directly to Colorados overdevelopment and growth. I know this is long but watching the state you grew up in get destroyed by a bunch of hipster yuppies and greedy developers is absolutely infuriating.
@@MajorChipHazard1 cry me a river, people will live where they want to live, this is a great place and continues to be without you.
@@yudanov13 Yeah, but the point is not everyone in the united states can move to Colorado. Wich is what the idiots who live there seem to have attempted. From Colorado Springs to the area that just got torched has turned into one big Overdeveloped strip mall/ subdivision. All this overdevelopment has ruined the cool little mountain towns. It's completely destroyed many of the things that made the Denver metro unique. It's priced out many of the locals. Instead of just visiting like normal people on vacation everyone just decided to pack their shit and move to Colorado. Have you heard of overdevelopment? Have you heard of top soil erosion? Do you know what happens when you have overdevelopment on the plains? No you don't. All greed and zero mindfulness towards conservation. They wiped out one of the largest Prarie Dog colonies in the word (Castle Rock) to make room for that second strip mall. I guess the first one wasn't good enough. You have no idea the evil and corruption going on between land developers and politicians. You have no idea about the repercussions we will face in the future due to this GREED AND SELFISHNESS BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO LIVE IN COLORADO!!! It's really not that special. Did it ever occur to you that if to many people migrate to one place that it might get packed and overdeveloped? It might start spoiling? Nope? Just develop all the land until nothing is left. Do you stop and listen to how selfish and mindless that attitude is? You'll see these events continue. I'm truly surprised this hasn't happened yet. Imagine how bad this fire season will be. It gets worse every year...Overdevelopment is not helping.