- After the devastating fire that ravaged the city of Colorado, Snow has one final say.
Indeed, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado decided to announce the state of emergency because the fire situation reached its climax, and was of unprecedented and unprecedented violence. The fire still destroyed nearly a thousand homes in the suburbs of Boulder. Fortunately, the fire, fleshed out by snowfall caused by warming.
“In just 15 minutes, everything was on fire. And now snow is covering the ashes of a city that has been reduced to nothing. It’s surreal ”. Less than 24 hours after the departure of the Marshall fire, Cécile Givelet was struggling to recover from the shock, Friday December 31.
The most destructive fire in history.
A French woman who lives in the Boulder region recounts what happened, touched by the scale of the event. She watched without doing anything, the destruction of the historic downtown of Superior, a small town where she works as an assistant to a philanthropist. "
There is nothing to say, everything has been razed, houses, restaurants and shops. The fire left nothing. Explained the young woman whose house in Louiseville.
In fact, this fire could reduce precisely 500 and 1,000 homes to ashes, according to the authorities. It would have had a lot of casualties because it is the cruelest fire Colorado has ever seen. This disaster caused the inhabitants to come out of their homes to save their skins in great danger. It is an evacuation of more than 30,000 people on Thursday and requires Democratic Governor Jared Polis to declare a state of emergency on Friday. Unheard of in the middle of winter in Colorado.
It will seem strange and surreal that the wind and snow have stepped in and finished what the fire started. It is thanks to the snow that the firefighters intelligently managed to extinguish the fire without risk. Alas! As they say, fire always leaves bad memories and now the people who lost their homes are now in the streets, in the cold. remarked Cécile Givelet.
The blaze that broke out on Thursday was largely fueled by high winds of up to 160 km / h. But for Becky Bollinger, climatologist and researcher at Colorado State University's Climate Center, "weather factors (note: of recent days) do not alone explain" the Marshall Fire. “All the ingredients for the spread of a devastating forest fire had been in place since last spring which was very wet which helped to grow tall grass. Then we had a very dry summer and fall which helped to dry out those herbs and turn them into combustion material ”.
Global warming is such a destructive element according to experts in the field. He always acted in the shadows and the blow he delivers is very hard to bear in the long term. Because of this warming, Colorado has experienced exceptional drought for several years. And the number 1 problem without a shadow of a doubt was the fact of the incredible growth in the construction of houses in areas with high fire risk, declared Cécile Givelet. It is time for Colorado to make an effort for the future because bad luck awaits it, and it is truly a reality.