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[Rockskipper]

I remember years ago when I moved from Colorado to Moab thinking good, no real fire danger here. Now I'm back in Colorado, and where I live now there's a small campground just down the street and every time I smell smoke, I wonder if it's from a campfire or a real fire, since I'm on the edge of town. I lived here when the Storm King Fire took 19 lives. The first I heard of it was when I went out on my deck and heard my neighbor on his deck talking about setting up a temporary morgue at the hospital (he was the administrator). I could see the smoke plume over the hill. Since the town sits in a deep canyon, there's no way they could evacuate it in a timely manner. I actually know people who have rafts so they can take off down the river if need be.