It's generating so much heat and so much speed that whether you get a "firenado" or a tsunami, you're looking at such unpredictable behavior that it boggles the mind. The fascinating thing about these fires is not just that fire consumes oxygen—it also consumes money. In the long term, this is what the world is going to look like. Daily meetings were held in Teller County for weeks, and the city of Woodland Park came close to being evacuated. There are more and more people living in the fire zones everywhere in the Southwest, and that means more and more evacuations and more and more danger. An estimated 350 people lost their homes.

A wildfire expert explains the fire's erratic behavior—and why we should be worried. Containment drops to 40 percent.

More than 5,000 people evacuated so far.

Park counties, ranking as the largest blaze in Colorado history, still prevail.

They're interconnected to broader global climate issues; they’re interconnected in terms of the magnitude of these various fires that we're seeing.

For most residents who live inside the Hayman burn area the landscape has completely changed. The 10 largest wildfires in Colorado history, by acreage, have all flared up in the last 18 years. The Hayman fire charred about 138,000 acres and destroyed 133 homes. Several small communities and dozens of subdivisions are evacuated.

and was actually the person who reported the blaze. JUNE 12Fire grows to 90,000 acres and jumps across parts of perimeter fire line. JULY 2The Hayman fire is declared 100 percent contained. Low 22F. JUNE 9The Hayman fire, named for a mining ghost town near Tappan Gulch, consumes 19,000 acres, sending towering smoke plumes skyward. It's telling us what, politically, we don't want to accept, which is that climate change is having a profound impact on the world in which we live.

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The Hayman burned 137,760 acres and was the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history.

We know where fires burn. Last week, a Fourth Judicial District judge slapped Terry Lynn Barton, a former forest service employee, who started the devastating blaze, with an additional 15 years of unsupervised probation. The scarred landscape remains decades away from a full recovery and many residents continue to struggle with huge financial losses. Apparently there was a "fire tsunami" on Wednesday night. JUNE 14Air Force C-130 slurry bombers join the fight. Then, after the fire, they quickly returned and rebuilt.
Francisco Salazar with Sweat Inc. was working with a crew Thursday, April 12, 2012, planting Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir seedlings in an area burned by the Hayman fire near Westcreek. Barton served time in jail, but Douglas County residents like Tim Baysinger say it’s hard to let go of the bitterness they feel towards her. The fire, which has burned more than 100,000 acres, is believed to have been started when a 52-year-old man from Denmark was cooking in a fire pit. Pacific Standard spoke with Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College and an expert on wildfire policy, about how wildfires can spread so quickly and vastly and how climate change makes the West particularly susceptible to them.

Numerous Teller County subdivisions are evacuated.

People have to be smarter about their choices about where they live, and zoning boards and planning commissions have to think through that process also. By late Saturday, it has burned more than 100 acres. ©2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The wounds from the Hayman fire of 2002 that scorched nearly 140,000 acres in Teller, Douglas and Park counties, ranking as the largest blaze in Colorado history, still prevail.

Every fire season is going to be seeing incidents like this: fast-moving and erratically behaving fires, which only means we haven't seen [such behavior] before—which means we have to be alert to these massive changes that are taking place. Suzette Beiswenger hold her cat Ashes (credit: CBS). JUNE 10Fire races northeastward, toward Denver suburbs, then reverses when the wind shifts.

Lake George is told to get ready to evacuate.

Here's the list, according to Denver7 : Pine Gulch Fire (2020): 139,006 acres How did this particular fire get so out of hand?
JUNE 8Smoke is first reported about 5 p.m. off Forest Service Road 290 about a mile west of Park County Road 77. The Spring Creek Fire is no small event. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. But you can get insurance in fire zones.

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They do now. The man is now facing arson charges, and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gotten involved because the man's visa had expired, the Denver Post reports.

The fire slows dramatically, growing to 102,900 acres.

Much of his 160 acres was blackened by the fire. Everybody's talking about a new normal. The Hayman Fire caused nearly $40 million in firefighting costs and forced the evacuation of 5,340 people. That doesn't make any sense. JUNE 15Fire stalls and containment rises to 40 percent. Department of the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. A selection of recent Pacific Standard stories on wildfires and their consequences.

Wildfire Resources – Visit CBSDenver.com’s Wildfire Resources section. DECKERS, Colo. (CBS4) – Ten years after Colorado’s biggest wildfire, many Coloradans who lost homes or whose property was damaged remain in the same spot they were in before the fire started. She couldn’t put out the blaze, and was actually the person who reported the blaze.

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She later admitted starting the blaze. Like with Baysinger and the Ronks, for Suzette Beiswenger, Hayman was a life altering event. Terry Barton was a Fire Prevention Technician for the US Forest Service when she started what became the 137,000-acre Hayman fire on the Pike National Forest in 2002. Smoke billows into the Colorado sky from the Hayman fire as it burns along the west side above Tarryall Creek. It's worrisome, honestly. Yet an 8,000-acre controlled burn done in 2001 may have halted the northeastern lobe of the fire early last week.

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JUNE 18Fire erupts, fed by stiff winds, racing eastward and devouring 23,000 more acres toward towns in El Paso and Douglas counties. Forest Service technician and former firefighter Terry Lynn Barton is arrested on suspicion of starting the Hayman fire, which remains at 103,000 acres.

What we're seeing now is what we have seen for a decade or more.

When it comes to Barton, the Ronks say they’ve forgiven the arsonist, whose story was that she was burning a letter from an estranged husband in a campfire ring and it got out of control (although many doubt the story). I actually think this is not a new normal. The sentence was consequently reduced. – Visit CBSDenver.com’s Wildfire Resources section. Barton reportedly started the fire accidentally in a campground northwest of Lake George, when she burned a letter from her estranged husband. Officials continue to update emergency response plans with one clear message: Remember the Hayman disaster. We don't know what we don't know.

Barton initially got a slight reprieve in the jail time she served and was released from prison in 2008, much earlier than the original sentence, and what some fire victims and prosecutors sought.

Somewhat surprisingly, more than half of those homeowners have actually chosen to stay on their property and rebuild. This is just normal. 2003 Figure 16 —By June 28 the Hayman Fire had impacted over 138,000 acres of the Front Range. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette Photo by MARK REIS, THE GAZETTE.

California climatologists fact-check the president's tweets on fire and water. According to CSU, wildfires in Colorado burned less than 100,000 acres per … "The Polhemus burn stifled the fire activity," said Barb Timock, a fire-information officer with the Forest Service.

The erosion barrier sediment storage used was less than the total available storage capacity; runoff and sediment were observed going over the top and around the ends of the barriers even when the barriers were less than half filled. She later admitted starting the blaze. The Hayman fire destroyed 133 homes.

Here's the list, according to Denver7 : Pine Gulch Fire (2020): 139,006 acres ... and facilitated the efforts of a number of working committees that addressed the long-term, collaborative response to the Hayman Fire across public and private lands. JUNE 29The last people evacuated from the fire zone are allowed to return home. Smoke settles over Colorado Springs. Sunny. JUNE 19Thousands of people from Palmer Lake in northern El Paso County and as far north as Perry Park in western Douglas County, evacuated from their homes 12 hours earlier, take a deep breath as higher humidity dampens the fire and a wind shift pushes it west. After fleeing the Carr Fire, survivors ask: What did they leave behind?

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Barton initially got a slight reprieve in the jail time she served and was released from prison in 2008, much earlier than the original sentence, and what some fire victims and prosecutors sought.

The underlying driver is a changing climate that, throughout the Southwest, is really changing the fire season into a 12-month-long period.

Nearly 100,000 acres are burned; 2,200 firefighters are on the blaze.

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This stemmed from a complaint filed by Probation Department of the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.. Clear to partly cloudy. Rampart Range Road is evacuated.

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The federal government was never held liable. The 10 largest wildfires in Colorado history, by acreage, have all flared up in the last 18 years.