Wild Turkey Fire is Out
Grace Miller
HI Folks,
My apologies for not sending this sooner, I am out of town (left on the 24th and didn’t see this until now. But nonetheless… good news! A message from Chief Wockner:
Hello all,
After monitoring the fire area for a couple warm sunny days, we are confident that the fire is out. We have changed the incident status from contained and controlled to OUT.
The day of the fire was a Red Flag Day, meaning a low relative humidity, dry grass fuels and gusty winds created a situation where fire was likely to spread once ignited. It is becoming common on the Front Range for these conditions to persist through winter until we get significant snow, which we have seen no sign of this year. There isn't much of a "fire season" anymore.
Though the PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutoff) created a whole set of communication problems in the canyon, I do think it prevented many fires from starting. It would have been incredibility difficult to fight fire in those winds. As a community and emergency response system, we have some work to do to create a more resilient communications system for future planned and unplanned outages. Starlink, solar power and generators are all solutions, but come with significant cost.
Four Mile Fire has received many donations since the Wild Turkey Fire and the outpouring of support from the community has been amazing. Thank you! As many of you know, Four Mile Fire is a combination department. A few of us are paid, but the majority of emergency response and fire department operations are provided by volunteers. You have a volunteer firefighter that lives in your neighborhood, get to know them!
If you are interested in volunteering (as a responder or as an auxiliary volunteer that functions in a support role), would like to make a donation or want to learn more about your local fire department, please feel free to reach out.
Thank you!
Caroline Wockner
Fire Chief - Four Mile Fire Protection District
Thanks,
J. Grace Miller
720-244-6712; jgrace...@msn.com