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Waldo Canyon Fire: Wildfire Near Colorado Springs Grows, Moves Toward Homes; 'Highest Priority Fire' In The Nation (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

We are about a mile east of I-25 and Garden Of The Gods road, everything west of the interstate has been evacuated. We are in the first houses east of the highway, we will probably be the next to have to evacuate unless the wind changes direction again. Brought my buddies bike to my house last night. The smoke is pretty bad. The pictures don't show it all, last night from out in front of our house we could see houses burning on the other side of the highway, smoke is to thick to see that far this morning.
We are getting big pieces of ash in the yard, 2" wide x 4" long lucky they weren't hot any more.

HarleysLR... hoping for the best for you today... let us know how you guys are. Sending our prayers.

HarleysRL..thanks for sharing. What a mess...whatever you do stay safe. They have insurance to replace material things. Imagine you get a new bike.

Its similar to the destruction that occurred up here with Irene in that its unfathomable until it happens to you.

Those photos really bring it on home so to speak.

When we were in Arizona and Utah back in 2010 there were wild fires that were just being left to run its course. And the one enroute to Flagstaff sucked because on a motorcycle we were getting caught in the deluge of smoke.

I hope your packed up and ready to run if you need to

350 houses burned to the ground tuesday evening, Firefighters are getting a handle on the fire but it is slow going. Some people were allowed back in there homes last night.
It still stinks like smoke out side but the sky is clearer today, I'm working today so I guess that is a good thing.

So, did u have to evacuate? Is your house safe? Thinking about u... hope u are ok.

We did not have to evacuate, we live about a 1/2 mile maybe east of I-25, everything west of I-25 had to evacuate, some have been allowed to go back home. I missed the news briefing at 4:00 today, the little message on the bottom of the tv screen says it is 25% contained and that 2 bodies were found in one of the burned houses and that there are still 10 people unaccounted for.
They may have not checked in like they were supposed to.
As far as arson they don't know anything yet, the investigators have not been allowed in yet and probably won't be allowed in for a couple of more days. Today they did some back burning of areas that the fire went around. The fire is in a very rough area with lots of near vertical terrain. They called it a firestorm that the wind caused, the fire moved 3 miles in 2 minutes and jumped across the primary fire break and then jumped the secondary break that is when it got into the houses, all the homes that burned all burned on Tuesday night.
Yes FLHT we rode right by where the fire is and highway up the canyon is closed. They are postponing the Pikes Peak Hill Climb for a month or more.

Thank you all that prayed for us and that were thinking of us.

it sure got our attention, I think they have finally let everyone go back to their homes, those have a home to go to.

We've been keeping track on TV and computer. It looks really bad. We hope and pray that you folsk get some rain to help put out the fires.

Nice looking ride though.

Danny

HarleysLR, we've been praying the whole time. The devastation is unbelievable from the newscasts we've seen, and I'm sure it's much worse being there to see and smell. Hope you got through it alright.