(2 Aug 2024)
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Littleton, Colorado – 1 August 2024
1. Various of firefighting helicopter sucking up water from a reservoir
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Techmeyer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office:
“We’re in for a long battle. What’s long? We don’t know. We know this. We have four big well, now, three big fires in the state of Colorado. The national news is focusing on this one. And there’s lots of reasons for that. But one, this is one of the most densely populated, and it has proven to be absolutely one of the most challenging firefights I’ve seen in my 15 to 20 years I’ve been doing this.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Techmeyer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office:
“It is steep and treacherous, and I’ve been talking about that for days. But boots on the ground are going to win this fight. Air is a critical part of us winning this fight, but you can’t put this fire out just by water and retardant. It’s going to be boots on the ground.”
4. Various of firefighting helicopters flying in front of a mountain
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Techmeyer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office:
“It’s 98 degrees. You bet we’re hot. Put on 30, 40, 50, if you like to go heavy gear, and then go up and down these mountains when it’s loose footing and it’s rocky and you’re climbing over stuff and you’re digging line. It’s tough work.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Techmeyer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office:
“You’d better be ready because we’ve seen fires run fast and hard from a 10 by 10 Tuesday night. Ten foot by ten foot. This went to 50 acres in an hour. That’s fast. Are you going to be prepared to get your stuff out if that thing blows up?”
7. Various of spectators watching a firefighting helicopter suck water from a pond
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Lutes, Littleton resident:
“So we thought about last night putting together a evacuation bag, but we didn’t really get it done. We’ll probably just put jewelry and collectibles and videos of family and stuff like that in there because we can’t pack up everything.”
9. Various of the wildfire smoldering behind a house
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Lutes, Littleton resident:
“I mean, it looks like there’s no houses up there, but there’s a lot of houses up there in little nooks and crannies and, you know, just hope those people are safe and their houses, are safe.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Techmeyer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office:
“We’re going to put this out with our own savvy, our own hard work, our own resources and the firefighters that are amazing. Most of these guys are volunteers. You think about that. How many of us are willing to do that type of work because you just feel the drive to help your neighbor? It’s pretty impressive. We’re going to get this thing.”
12. Various of firefighting airplane collecting water from a reservoir
STORYLINE:
A wildfire burning in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned dozens of homes and outbuildings, while a second fire crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes near Denver on Thursday.
Authorities said they were hopeful that hundreds of threatened homes could be saved. But firefighters working in the tree-covered foothills on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains faced sweltering temperatures, and some were sidelined by heat exhaustion.
Almost 100 large fires are raging across the West. The largest, in Northern California, has burned more than 400 houses and other structures, officials reported.
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