Much of Estes Park evacuated Thursday as East Troublesome Fire expands east over Continental Divide

After the East Troublesome Fire exploded Wednesday and grew more than 100,000 acres, it continued its quick growth Thursday, spotting over the Continental Divide and forcing evacuations in Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park.

[@ettaplace6716]

God bless these people and animals!!!🙏🏻

[@StolenW]

@hooker911 what’s wrong with that? A lot of those old people worked hard for their money. They deserve to retire in a beautiful place such as Estes.

[@redwoods7370]

We just went through this in California wine country. We send Colorado our love and prayers. It's so awful. God bless them.

[@deborahedwards160]

I evacuated Thurs I am sick from it. Thanks going out to All the Fire people All the support coming in to Defend and protect.

[@nallen6559]

My gosh, we need prayers answered! Pray for the people, the animals, the land and the fire fighters who go after this each and every day!

[@ph1lthyvision]

Thank you for putting this up on the Internet. wow it has been in exceptionally bad day!

[@gulfgypsy]

Heartbreaking for all those affected by this terrible wildfire!!! I pray no lives are lost and people were able to get their livestock and animals evacuated! It's not easy losing your home, but a life is irreplaceable.

[@coachkb66]

Reminds me of Ft. McMurray a few years ago. I used to live there and so many homes and businesses were destroyed by the fire. I sat and watched on tv places I knew or went to. Now, folks here in Colorado are having this. Friends of mine being affected here. My prayers to everyone .

[@gillearddistribution3904]

This is so sad! I love Estes Park! :(

[@jameshibbits336]

Millions and millions of dead pine bark beetle killed trees....still had to pay to cut them down for firewood and were limited in amount allowed to cut. POOR NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT!!! This disaster has been waiting to happen for 10 YEARS! Dead trees should have been removed! Better and more forest access roads! Heartbreaking. Our hearts go out to the people of Grand Lake and Estes Park...beautiful towns. Hope the Stanley Hotel survives this!

[@jameshibbits336]

@@johnperic6860 I don't disagree. I just know that the Pine Bark beetle infestation really swept through while I was still living in the area (near Cheyenne). I would drive through Walden, CO regularly and saw the mountainsides turn brown with beetle-killed trees. If people had been permitted to remove them, perhaps some of this devastation could have been avoided, but the USFS would not allow it without payment and limitations on harvesting. Also the USFS policy of blocking off access roads and not maintaining existing old logging access roads surely impedes firefighter access to fires.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

Absolutely agree. The vast areas of dead trees from the infestation was/is immense. This was a disaster waiting to happen.

[@glenardcoleman9974]

I am terribly sorry all of you people have to go through all of this.

[@pmh1nic]

Spent a lot of time in the Estes Park area. A beautiful town and I'm hoping for the best.

[@rowanplays3032]

My grandpa was evacuated today because of the east troublesome fire

[@anastasia5608]

My aunt lost her house in grand lake

[@sheripoland4742]

This is heartbreaking, so sorry people need to flee for their lives. But life is more important. Prayers from hurricane land in Florida ❤

[@theshakerman5757]

So sad.... and we have been going through that in California... it's all just so sad...

[@wayneakins7850]

Be safe everyone

[@ramonabarca2340]

I'am so sorry for you people, and very sad to see you lose your homes, I was sad today because I live in a little tiny trailer but I'am grate-full I have a roof over my head after seeing everyone lose there homes and there are some beautiful homes that will be lost. Its better not to ever have one then face the loss of loosing it to fire. I'am grate-full and I pray for you to be ok too!

[@2olvets443]

Report forgot another reason, lack of controlled burning.

[@billymac5481]

Those damn pine beetles don't help.

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

They forgot more than that. They forgot DEW.

[@mountainskyaerialphotograp3921]

I feel sick, about all the animals in this majestic area!

[@ajeddiamondwadjet1557]

the animals been left dumbass

[@mountainskyaerialphotograp3921]

@@ajeddiamondwadjet1557 Your the DUMB ASS. Lived here all my life, I know what the animals do, Dip Shit.

[@ajeddiamondwadjet1557]

@@mountainskyaerialphotograp3921 fuck outs you're a dead nobody lil bill-FETCHA MIND RIGHT LIL BAEBII

[@ajeddiamondwadjet1557]

@@mountainskyaerialphotograp3921 who got time to comprehend your nasty ass existence-NOT EVEN YOU A PISS POOR OF AN OPP TELL THE FEDS THEIR ASS IS DEAD TOO HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

[@ajeddiamondwadjet1557]

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEXT

[@MrAllmotorB]

Someone started these on purpose why does the news not t talk about this???

[@lorischwind1048]

I thought the same thing myself. There's too many fuckin fires.

[@maryholloway5487]

Liberals in denial! Someone is starting these fires on purpose!

[@BlindDesertPete]

@@maryholloway5487 More 'n likely a hunters campfire got away.

[@OttawaInHD]

Yes someone started it and then Biden can use it against trump on global warming and science

[@theclos16]

Does it matter? Let the authorities investigate that. Now its all about damage control and getting people to safety.

[@semco72057]

That is sad that so many wild fires are consuming so much land in the Western U.S., and I hope each of the states have learned something from these fires and they can do controlled burns in the future to contain such fires in the future.

[@KubieQ]

These fires are not by accident!!!!

[@OttawaInHD]

I bet it was political

[@linanicolia1363]

not normal and not natural. People need to take samples of everything...the air, what has burned.....we need to investigate. I smell DEW.

[@suzh7301]

1. It’s climate change climate change climate change! 2. Will evacuees be able to vote, maybe not.

[@suzh7301]

@B MO I do not believe this is climate change that was sarcastic.

[@Sunny-kn6th]

@Fuck Your Mask tell us how you feel...probably want to blame this on Trump

[@mikehelton6259]

Prayers

[@Kylee594]

I was evacuated for 23 days came home to my property in Estes burnt but my home safe I was 13 when I was evacuated at 12:45 pm October 22

[@strongbelieveroftheholybible]

Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼❤️🕊REPENT, believe in the Gospel, Be Born Again

[@strongbelieveroftheholybible]

@Johnny Atkins And I pray for you🙏🏼

[@glennmartin9447]

STRONG BELIEVERSOF THE BIBLE,,,,, NOT

[@kelleybryant5947]

Prayers for Estes Park.

[@longrider42]

Why hasn't the Governor of Colorado called out the National Guard? They are trained to fight these kinds of fires. Yes the wind is bad, but hopefully on Sunday the 25th a cold front is supposed to move in with snow. Lets just hope.

[@littlekaren1551]

are they really? like the oregon national guard has some of their guardsmen trained to fight fire? I'm legitimately asking, i like to learn about firefighting, wildfires and stuff with the miltary. if they are it is a wonder how much bad it has to get for him to finally call them in.

[@longrider42]

@@littlekaren1551 During the fires of 88 up in Yellowstone, the National Guard was called in. Not sure if all states have National Guard Forrest firefighters, but I know Wyoming and I'm pretty sure Colorado does. We also have a Air National Guard unit in Cheyenne, and they have six C-130's tricked out for dropping fire retardant/slurry.

[@ntvtexan5015]

Because Colorado is a Democrat run state...Hmmm, is it just coincidence that it's the Democrat run states going up in flames and violence in the big cities, and now they're burning the open lands as well ? It's a plan people, just like Covvidd1199. The UN Agenda-21 was delayed, but is now in full swing since they have been exposed with all this destruction. I loved my visit to Estes Park back in 1991, but now it's time to let it go to the fires from the Democrats. THIS is how the Agenda-21 plan was designed, to literally burn people out of their homes and lands, and it is being funded by the likes of George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. They have their desire for power, and this is how they will get it. With NO PUSHBACK from any of the Democrat politicians that were bought and paid for by the Soros/Bloomberg money. So now you see the truth behind the Democrats allowing the BLM and ANTIFA chaos. They win, you LOSE...everything !

[@glenardcoleman9974]

Everybody please be safe.

[@domopandabear]

Pinewood beetle killed all those trees combined with dry conditions

[@paladin11C40]

By Monday Colorado will get much colder and snow, this will help to stop the spread and put the fire out.

[@rosaliebritton]

We are praying for you . Romans 10:9 You have your Life . Hope in Jesus 💝🙏

[@kenrussell1093]

Rocky Mountain National Park was my first Colorado vacation, it is such a beautiful area. I can't understand why such beautiful land isn't managed better, and even more, why anyone would even set one tiny fire here. It's very sad.

[@lillyscott2204]

I remember going on vacation a year ago to Estes park😢 and now it’s up in flames 😭 the trees, the elk and all wildlife😭

[@ChildOfGod0777]

Me too I was there a year ago, I fell in love with it ,I feel so bad for the Elk and moose and all the wildlife and the people who live there, we stayed in a beautiful bnb I sure hope it doesnt burn it was practically new...

[@carl5535]

So when you were there was the active forest management going on throughout the park or just guest areas?

[@ChildOfGod0777]

@@carl5535 I only recall seeing guest. It was a busy time of the year right before the kids went back to school, so it was difficult finding a place to stay when I got there, I was lucky because I stayed during the week not on a weekend. But, I didnt see any people actually in the forest themselves working, just visitors.

[@NcScbeach1]

Great news about the snow !!!!! That will help some!

[@queentiagamenhotepsgirl8975]

Prayers Up!💖😣🌹

[@bobblew8530]

The incident commader won't do it so we really need the news to do daily flyovers so people can see if their home is still there or not.

[@nealaskme6272]

Prayers for everyone’s safety....this is devastating......much love from hurricane land, Orlando fl

[@mrs.knockoutboxing86tv38]

Praying for you all Colorado.

[@KubieQ]

Weird.. when I lived there in the 80s... fires were not a thing!!! EVER!!!!

[@sadhumarga7422]

I was a logger there in the 70s and noticed the same thing. Only very rarely.

[@michaelkenyon3372]

uhhh huuuuuh

[@Soapgirl64]

@Johnny Atkins Enough

[@thomasmazur6916]

Beautiful place

[@jackbauercelldies]

This is what happens when you F with nature. The intentional release of lodge pole pine beetle in the forest has wiped out MILLIONS OF ACRES of lodge pole pines (85% of CO forest is lodgepole pine), I was in the grand county woods in 2008,09,10 when we had a wood stove to heat our home and we lived just 45 mins from Grand County. It was devastated from beetle kill!!! Millions of trees dead, all trees pine needles dark red, stiff and dead! Millions and millions of acres of crimson pine forest, this was 10 years ago. Thanks Obama

[@Mike-ls1tx]

Isnt it funny no one mentions the thousands of acres of Beetle kill pine that are dead and so dry, that has affected this fire more than climate change. We always want to make it political.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

I've made this comment on other videos. You're right. The last time I was in Rocky Mountain NP, the swaths of dead trees from the beetle were huge. Looking West across the Colorado River from US-34 I was amazed at the size of the dead patches. This was a fire and disaster waiting to happen.

[@margaloone7970]

So sad. I vacationed here a few years ago. Praying for all of you.

[@NcScbeach1]

Thank God for the snow🙏!!!!

[@dank3823]

Sad. We had many fires in my area this year. Estes park is beautiful and hope it doesn't go up.

[@leehilton9932]

Thoughts and prayers out to family and friends out there

[@glenardcoleman9974]

That smoke and fire is so devastating.

[@patrick-rb3ul]

They left the bug kill trees...Ouch!

[@jacobayala9884]

I housed the firefighters at the stanley it was myself and 8 other brave souls who stood behind.

[@lemondrop8685]

Prayers from Oregon. Been there done that

[@KubieQ]

SAVE THE STANLEY!!!

[@UndisputedRecordsPlc]

Troublesome 😎

[@ketamld3450]

God 2020 is a year full of tragedy

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

@@Faber-cator Yes, it is. Manufactured droughts and DEW.

[@lucimaria-x3b]

Se ve muy seco, parece un desierto.

[@MASS1866]

Imsee so much prairie between homes and forest. Why bot wirk it black with farm equipment?? No fuel, no fire. We’ve also used graders throwing dirt to cut fire breaks and even extinguish prairie fires is safe to get close. Very fast and effective.

[@azdeb7468]

They had crews using heavy equipment to plow a fire break until they got two feet of snow.

[@almeggs3247]

Never met a farm family that weren’t the salt of the earth!

[@skurzen66]

Excuse me folks......this is NOT normal.

[@maryholloway5487]

Arson? Why aren’t they mentioning this possibility?

[@mycorrhizae1832]

Because if it is a possibility it's most likely a blm member

[@OttawaInHD]

Exactly it’s blm or Biden using this against trump.

[@ainan3180]

🥳🥳🥳

[@neatphar-5265]

Hunting season as well, this is the only time of year people are in a lot of these places.

[@sakeeah]

@@OttawaInHD stop it,

[@foxyccc1316]

O ya I remember this it was very interesting never seen something like this

[@JWRay-xh9wl]

I thought the Waldo Canyon fire was the worst I ever saw... but this....

[@buttonbabe1662]

I do not believe it is Smokey Bear playing with matches. This is disgusting. I can only cry with anger over what is highly suspicious to me.

[@lonelyplanet1080]

O yeah, all these fires that has been going on seems highly suspicious to a lot of people.. trust, it's all intentional

[@ginapolman4968]

God help them 🙏

[@smfries458]

Hope the Stanley hotel is gonna be ok

[@userz9481]

why were the dead trees not cleaned up during the summer?

[@Backroad_Junkie]

Because there are millions of acres of dead trees. Look up "Beetle infestation Rocky Mountain". That's the real cause...

[@toddprobasco9728]

Denver7 has Alex Trebek doing the weather?

[@laurabennett2420]

Wow what would John Denver be saying right now? Maybe he’d be singing his song with different words like Rocky Mountain Fires ,Colorado

[@renl4123]

Yea...wildfires are unpredictable.... greetings from Oregon.

[@roxannenicholas4160]

God help them!

[@Social_Infidel]

Agenda 20/30?

[@sgassistedliving9025]

Crazy

[@StormLaker]

How did these fires start? I hope that Estes Park is safe, such a beautiful place:-(

[@MrAdamNTProtester]

Alex Trebeck does weather for Denver7... did not know that!

[@brianperry2599]

Ahead of the curve ? Really ?

[@bamahama707]

Flattening that curve, ya know?

[@hisimagenme]

Here's hoping people are getting smarter and going through their own social media to start go fund me's if they lose everything. Organizations just don't give it all equally or all of it to the victims. Even the Red Cross. Praying for all effected...

[@rahkinrah1963]

This is from 10/22. It is now 10/29. why is this still up?

[@stanm3803]

What??

[@odaydrums]

Is 2020 the worst year ever? Well i am dreading 2021 even more for some reason.

[@terryrussel3369]

Beautiful country, but no stranger to wildfires. So. Has anyone come up with the cause of ALL of these fires ? Nation wide and under drought conditions there are thousands attributed to lightning every year and officials will say so. Unfortunately more suspected/proven cases of arson are being recorded.

[@billymac5481]

Pine beetles and drought conditions make for the biggest fires we've seen

[@stanm3803]

Something better will come out of the ashes, always does

[@batmanhulk9289]

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT FIRE.....WHAT YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT IS WHAT YOUR INSURER WILL TELL YOU!!! GET READY TO GET SCAMMED!!!!! IMAGINE HOW MUCH THESE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL PAY!!!!!

[@thebluetarp]

Denver airport still fully functional??

[@chinfuzzchet3616]

spent 4 of our last 5 summer vacations at Winter Park. Sad

[@ajeddiamondwadjet1557]

they always wanna show a hill or tree burning BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE 100,000 acres?

[@kanank13]

I feel so sad for the animals,birds and insects. Humans are the worst selfish evil.

[@josecoll3129]

Súper caldera volcánica Yellowstone warning ⚠️ fire underground

[@Mama_Bear88]

Nooooooo

[@spiffypreston3176]

It seems people aren't the only ones burning down in Colorado.....

[@a.s.3567]

Why hasn’t our federal government put the military on this???

[@bedoy34]

because the current admin believes that their should be a very small federal government and that local states should take care of everything...

[@JWRay-xh9wl]

You think an administration that defunded environmental protections would help out,huh. Then blames the management they defunded for the lack of management...and they have.

[@2011blueman]

what would the military do? Drop bombs? We don't need the military, we need the National Forest Service to be fully funded for fire fighting.

[@a.s.3567]

@@bedoy34 It does seem like they the GOP wants out of everything except women’s right to their own bodies. Creepy right?

[@a.s.3567]

@@2011blueman your right, the military should only be used against peaceful protesters for a photo op.

[@salty9314]

100,00 acres!!! That's small compared to Cali 1 million acres fire

[@randy4991]

And now; watch as property's plummet hardcore. Good time to invest in mountain property, fire sale and all.

[@tacocruiser4238]

These fires are normal in California. Welcome to the club!

[@coldcatz]

Insane

[@theresarezac7502]

Those fires were set.

[@euniceramon5714]

Now Were paying for all the contamination we did to earth it's time we pray for the firefighters and we all have to be together to see how we can help recycling or throwing the trash away because all the contamination that we do the firefighters pay it with their lives 🙏🙏

[@micha6887]

Why do I get a feeling that this was man made. (Sinister)

[@TrangLe-kc6os]

🙏🙏🙏

[@viviennewrightbaker6916]

The coming of the God is near repent repent

[@tomjones9519]

There is no god. Try some critical thinking, it's the best thing for you.

[@praisethelord7928]

@@tomjones9519 Yes there is, do you believe that NOTHING created EVERYTHING?

[@tomjones9519]

@@praisethelord7928 I believe in science.

[@GARRY3754]

@@tomjones9519 i like to say God created science to converse

[@tomjones9519]

@@GARRY3754 Jesus christ. There is no god. You can believe in santa claus and all the fake made up stuff you want. Don't push it in my direction.

[@priscillaross-fox9407]

I'd never expect the truth from any network TV.

[@JolanaStudio]

Where did all of these fires come from "out of the blue"? Where are the firefighters? Where are the planes dropping water or fire suppression? Why is the fire allowed to impinge on the towns without ANY firefightiing? This is such a bunch of crap!

[@neatphar-5265]

Dry conditions and wind. it is easy for them to start, it happens all the time. If the wind is up there is little you can do to fight it, it’s just too fast moving and powerful. The towns are nested into the forested mtn/hillsides. Air suppression measures are used at key passes and breaks and they are effective for spread but that’s a few hundred yards at a time not thousands of acres.

[@insontibus]

Spoken like a woman who has no clue how difficult it is to actually DO stuff. Just nag and complain.

[@rhondamorgan2202]

So sad

[@bosslady1914]

All by volcanoes?

[@Gonz29]

Most likely by man

[@wayneakins7850]

DEW at large

[@RPMac]

Nature does not care.....no more than the people who scar nature with their sprawl and growth.....if you live in intense nature you have to except its potential power.....the natural elements and man made problems.....it's a heartbreaker , but it's natural.