Following a significant ‘jump’ across firelines and breaks, the Waldo Canyon wildfire exploded yesterday as extreme heat and a huge tinderbox harnessed the perfect conditions for this inferno to spead fast rapidly, catching all off guard.

While heat and dry weather supports the perfect conditions, it was powerful 65 mph winds which helped drive this fire and jump fire breaks and lines. These breaks and lines are carved out by firefighters which help contain the fire’s spread, but it was the extreme, hot, dry winds which caught the firefighters and city off guard, allowing it to jump into areas likely considered ‘safe’.  No matter how good the firefighters are, and of course they are among the worlds best, no man could stop this thing last night.

This terrifying and rapidly worsening situation last night with little real improvement this morning forced as many as 32,000 Colorado Springs and surrounding area residents to flee and according to the networks and authorities, it is unclear as to how many homes have been lost. There is fear that entire nighbourhoods may have been wiped out.

This huge fire, rages in the midst of a season considered worst in Colorado state history. It is no coincidence that while Colorado deals with the biggest fores in history, we’re seeing extremely dry conditions and a record breaking heat wave.

Denver saw it’s second day in a row in which they tied the city’s all-time record high of 105°. Never has this occured. Before tying the all-time high on Monday, only two other times has the city topped 105°, that was back in 2005 and before that it was way back in 1875.

Back during the weekend, temperatures reached 114° over eastern Colorado, this actually tied the all-time state record.

This has become a worst case scenario for the people who live here and for those fighting to stop this fire from destroying more and more of the city.

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