By: Tom Wehrkamp

Tom Wehrkamp — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:46:03 +0000

The problem was not with CSFD, CSPD, emergency management, the fire fighters on the ground and other resources used to fight the fire. The problem was the incompetence of fire management to put sufficient resources in a timely manner to contain and extinguish the fire. Had heavy equipment and a proper amount of personnel been put into action when the fire was first reported there would not have been a loss of life and 350 homes. The fire should have been contained in the initial thirty acres on the friday it was reported. Waiting three days for the so called incident one team to arrive from Nevada without placing sufficient resources on the burn lent to disaster. I feel the whole problem to over 200,000 plus acres burnt this year alone in Colorado is to incompetence within fire management within the USFS, USNPS, and the Department of Interior. Anyone who had spent time on major fires could read that cloud on the day it broke. Look back at what was transpiring between incident command, congressman Lamborn, and the military. Look back at the time lines, placement of equipment, and the statements from incident command and the USFS. Look back, then also look at the High Plains fire.

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By: Tom Wehrkamp