24 FIRE UPDATE: This is an important update from the Colorado office of Emergency Management. The fire has grown to 7,400 acres – sounds bad, right? It isn’t at all. The growth was from the back burns Sunday night. The fire isn’t growing on its own.
That information, combined with fewer, and cooler satellite hot spot detections (from the back burn) also, shows that the overnight increase in humidity was really good for the fire.
Like I wrote earlier today, I think the worst of this fire is in the rearview mirror and that we start to get some containment numbers and the lifting of at least some of the pre-evacuation notices within the next 6-18 hours.
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