Photos: Waldo Canyon Fire Declared 100% Contained
Posted by mleyba on 2012-07-10 20:02:47 tags: Photo
The Waldo Canyon Fire will be declared 100 percent contained at 8 p.m. Tuesday, officials announced.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, Incident Commander Troy Nelsen flew above the fire around 6 p.m. and could not find any smokes in the Blodgett Peak area.
Burned Area Emergency Response or BAER teams have been dispatched onto the Waldo Canyon fire burn area. BAER teams, which are made up of soil scientists, hydrologists, engineers, archaeologists, biologists, and others, are used to assess the extent of the damage left from a fire, determine the soil burn severity, and help communities and residents make plans for dealing with flash floods in fire zones. The communities surrounding the Waldo Canyon fire live in an environment where the canyons within the burned area can produce flash floods.
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