Creede colorado

The Papoose Fire has been incorporated into the West Fork Fire Complex, so when you go to inciweb, that's where you will find updates. No updates as of a few minutes ago, including on the San Juan National Forest site. The Pine River Times in Bayfield, CO has been doing a good job, either on their website or if you "like" them on Facebook. Another red flag warning day today, which makes 4 in a row. Heading to Silverton today, where our favorite Jeep road, Stony Pass, is closed because of the Papoose Fire... Stay safe, everyone!

http://www.acemergency.org/ For info on South Fork. Another fire has broken out called pappose, near Creede, Co. We saw the large plume of smoke last night. We are in Lake City. 149 is closed from Creede to South Fork. Another source of info. http://www.inciweb.org/

Please keep this thread updated - we might have to change our plans as we are going to be heading from Las Vegas onto the 160 in Utah and then up Wolf Creek Pass.

There aren't a lot of choices on routes in that area.

Thoughts are with everyone affected in CO.

They're calling the fire "unprecedented," which I guess they call every fire, but in this case, thousands of acres of standing dead spruce, killed by beetles, are fueling it like nothing before. Just saw a report that earlier reports of the impending destruction of South Fork may have been a misquote, but honestly, how anything can survive the onslaught of those flames is beyond me.

Lightning appears to be the cause for those around Wolf Creek Pass. The one last week in the Black Forest that destroyed 509 homes has been ruled as "not by natural causes" and is being investigated as a crime scene.

Thats awful. How do most of these fires get started?

Reports are now coming out on the news that the town of South Fork may not be able to be saved from the fire. We are getting lots of smoke from these fires here in Colorado Springs.

We were going to be there on July 2nd, however sounds like the fires might change our plans. I'm in a 2013 44ft Monaco Diplomat.

As of this morning, June 21, the town of South Fork is under mandatory evacuation and, in addition to the Hwy 160 closure at Wolf Creek Pass, Hwy 149 is now closed from South Fork to Creede. Additional evacuations include all of Hwy 149 from South Fork to Wagon Wheel Gap, which we left after a week's stay just yesterday morning. Please keep the folks in the area and the responders in your prayers. A new fire, The Papoose Fire, has burned 1600 acres NW of Creede near the Rio Grande Reservoir. Am thinking that Creede is okay, as the West Fork Complex fire is moving more easterly at 1 mph. (It is 6 miles from South Fork, to which it is headed.)

So, you all need to know that the West Fork Fire Complex is causing all kinds of trouble in the area. We got over Wolf Creek Pass a couple of hours before it was closed indefinitely. The fire is growing exponentially. From our house, about 50 miles west, the smoke plumes are huge. All of the area from the summit of the pass down to South Fork is under a mandatory evac notice. The area around Wagon Wheel Gap, 13 miles west on Hwy 149 from South Fork, is only 6 miles from the mandatory evac area. The fire has moved over the Divide into the Rio Grande NF. Creede is about 10 miles further north and west of this area, although the access to the area is affected. There's a new fire just north of Creede that is pluming and visible from our house in Durango. I do not know the exact location of this one, as it hasn't yet hit the media updates. Creede is probably FINE, but you need to know how dicey the situation is all over this part of the state and, sadly, the rest of the state. Prayers for Colorado would be good. Thanks.