Waldo Canyon Fire start

To experience Meryl Runion Rose’s Cascadian pictorial chronicle of the Waldo Canyon Wildfire from the beginning, click here. To continue, click next below. 

At my Communidance that fateful Saturday, my friend Annette mentioned that she would be afraid to live in the mountains like I do because of the fire threat. I didn’t share her concern. But I thought about what she had said when I drove home. I saw a puff of smoke in the mountains. It’s tough to tell where smoke is coming from. But with every twist and turn of Highway 24, I thought – that doesn’t look good! I didn’t imagine I was witnessing the start of the worst wild fire in the history of Colorado.