You can see it from here, if you look to the northeast, where an area called Black Forest is burning. Reports say that 100 houses have burned, and that a number of people declined to evacuate, thinking they could defend their houses on their own. Their fates are unknown at this time. This, being rural Colorado, means that livestock is in need of shifting out of the fire's path. Some people have had to leave horses behind, when the approaching fire came too close, and authorities evacuated them.... Sign in to see full entry.