Justin Dombrowski Quotes (9 Quotes)

Major dams occur above many communities in this state. Giving people information can help them tie into what they should do to help themselves.

What people need to realize is that fire season is a year-round problem. If you don't have snow on the ground or it's not raining, you're in fire season.

This has been a monthly event all winter a hot, dry day with westerly winds. As the mountains have been receiving the moisture, we've been receiving the wind.

This weather pattern has been continuing for weeks, and there's no real relief in sight.

Unfortunately with the long range forecast, we're looking at above normal temperatures like this all the way until the next 12 months. We're looking at below normal precipitation in the next few months, basically the recipe is there that we can have a long fire season ahead of us.

We've been seeing hundreds of fires this winter, basically multiple fires everyday. When you talk about these wind events that have been coming through, instead of these fires where firefighters can quickly stop them, they're turning to thousands of acres.

It has allowed for more fires and the wind has fanned those fires, turning them into hundreds, if not thousands of acres.

This happened so fast that firefighters just had to stop the fire without having time to evacuate.

With the winds we have today (30-35 mph in Boulder County), you could have fires that could outrace fire trucks trying to chase it. You could have fires that move so fast, you can't get out of the way on time. You could start not just losing a home, but home after home after home.