I did not go yesterday. A different crew was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. I'll go back Monday if needed.

The fire is still zero contained. In Friday's unexpected growth, one front reburned through a previous fire burn from about 2015. Today the area grew to 100,000 acres. For perspective that's the size of Denver.

A firefighter captured this image of a fire tornado near Bishop's Castle.



I never saw one of these and never want to. From where we were staged, you could FEEL the heat from the fire- a good two miles away.

The fire is about 50 miles southwest of my house, so there is no threat or danger to it or me. While parts of it are advancing toward Pueblo, much of the prairie flat is cactus, sagebrush and short grass, so the city isn't really threatened either. However there are a few suburbs like parts of Pueblo West in the pinyon-juniper zone that could be threatened.

The fire is still zero contained and the sixth largest fire in state history. That position is certain to change.

The fire is burning in a front range called the Wet Mountains, and they're anything but. The range runs parallel, east of the Sangre de Cristo, which absorb moisture from the west... already greatly absorbed by the San Juan range across the very dry San Luis Valley. High point of the Wet Mountains is Greenhorn Mountain, 12,345'The valley south of the range, in which the town of Walsenburg sits, is from Greenhorn and the Sangre de Cristo crest, deeper than the Grand Canyon.

I went to City Hall for the No Kings Protest. It was loosely planned and loosely attended.



Your girls had heat exhaustion. I said nothing because I was dead tired and know you knew that, and they were OK. I am surprised their camp counselors weren't more proactive.

At Mt Rushmore violent weather cut short the felon's plans, and most prophetically the sculpted presidents appeared to cry from the torrential rain and hail melt pouring from their eyes.

His appearance at the Great American State Flop left many pissed off by his careless tardiness and lack of services, like food and drink. Some heat exhaustion occurred there.