{"id":591,"date":"2006-01-09T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2006-01-09T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T02:57:00","slug":"591","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A forest fire in January<\/strong><\/p>\n

The same winds that have pushed the grass fires in Oklahoma and Texas for the past couple of weeks have been blowing in southern Colorado too.<\/p>\n

Now a forest fire is burning west of Aguilar<\/a>, just one county south of us. It is called the Mauricio Canyon<\/a> fire. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of this evening it was 5,000 acres and basically out of control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I go outdoors, the forest floor is just crunchy dry. Even in 2002, the big fire year, we didn’t have forest fires in January.<\/p>\n

In Denver and other northern parts, however, people are acting like the drought is over, tra-la tra-la. No, it is not.<\/p>\n

Tag: Mauricio Canyon Fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A forest fire in January The same winds that have pushed the grass fires in Oklahoma and Texas for the past couple of weeks have been blowing in southern Colorado too. Now a forest fire is burning west of Aguilar, just one county south of us. It is called the Mauricio Canyon fire. More here. 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