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Gray days aren’t always depressing. Las Animas and Fort Lyon woke up to another gray Thursday, but it was a cloudy day and not caused by smoke. This was the first time in 10 days that the air seemed almost back to normal. “We’re in the mop-up phase,” Chris Sorensen, media spokesman for the Bent County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sorensen said that some fire crews are being released to return to their homes and jobs and one place was dropping slurry and water on isolated hot spots. On Wednesday the fire line had over one hundred fire fighters, but Thursday control of the fire and weather allowed the fire marshall to release many of those individuals.
The plane out of Syracuse, Kan,. worked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, but Thursday the plane was looking for hot spots which can be spotted from the air. Sorensen said they are keeping the Buena Vista Crew from the Correctional Facility for anothe day as the 20-man highly trained team had proved invaluable to the fight. Other teams are being rotated in and out to give them rest.
Fire lines are still active in an area south and east of Las Animas. “There are still some hot spots that may flame up, but it is within the perimeter and can’t go anywhere,” Sorensensen said. He also said that individuals that have lived in the area all their lives have comments that this is the first time some of the brush in the river bottoms had been gone and this could eventually be a good thing for wildlife and people wanting to use the areas.
Travis Black, wildlife management for the area, echoed the sentiment, saying that many of the areas will grow back and wildlife that had been displaced by the fire would return.
Gray days aren’t always depressing. Las Animas and Fort Lyon woke up to another gray Thursday, but it was a cloudy day and not caused by smoke. This was the first time in 10 days that the air seemed almost back to normal. “We’re in the mop-up phase,” Chris Sorensen, media spokesman for the Bent County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sorensen said that some fire crews are being released to return to their homes and jobs and one place was dropping slurry and water on isolated hot spots. On Wednesday the fire line had over one hundred fire fighters, but Thursday control of the fire and weather allowed the fire marshall to release many of those individuals.
The plane out of Syracuse, Kan,. worked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, but Thursday the plane was looking for hot spots which can be spotted from the air. Sorensen said they are keeping the Buena Vista Crew from the Correctional Facility for anothe day as the 20-man highly trained team had proved invaluable to the fight. Other teams are being rotated in and out to give them rest.
Fire lines are still active in an area south and east of Las Animas. “There are still some hot spots that may flame up, but it is within the perimeter and can’t go anywhere,” Sorensensen said. He also said that individuals that have lived in the area all their lives have comments that this is the first time some of the brush in the river bottoms had been gone and this could eventually be a good thing for wildlife and people wanting to use the areas.
Travis Black, wildlife management for the area, echoed the sentiment, saying that many of the areas will grow back and wildlife that had been displaced by the fire would return.
