‘This season is off the charts’: Colorado fights the worst wildfires in its recent history
Two major fires are consuming the forests in the Rocky mountains, killing at least two people and causing an estimated $195m in damagesBy 23 October, a blustery Friday toward the end of a depressingly short autumn, the two largest wildfires in Colorado’s recent history were descending on Rocky Mountain national park, reaching toward each other with a mere 10 miles of bone-dry forest between them.The Cameron Peak fire had arrived from the north and had already scorched through wilderness for 71 days. Читать дальше...