Wildfire consumes 15 acres

" The sheriff's office is investigating reports that a wildfire started as a prescribed burn which got out of control.

[Randy]

There was another controlled burn in the area back in Jan/Feb that seemed out of control to me. It was unwatched and spewing heat onto high tension power wires near the Windy Gap Pumping Plant.

[Angrytom]

Grandby? Is that anywhere near Granby?

[Dennis the Menace]

The first sentence of this story has a typo, it should be "grew" not crew"

[Lindsay Loo Larrold]

You may have also wanted to mention that the "log pile" that caught on fire was wood owned by Ranch Creek Inc....Wood that was part of the companies inventory. A sawdust pile also went up into flames and took firefighters quite a while to get out. You also claim that no one was injured, and although it was not severe, one man did suffer some 2nd-3rd degree burns and was treated for them. Next time you might want to actually do some research on what actually happened.

P.S. And take better pictures

[Lindsay Loo Larrold]

Dennis the Menace wrote:

The first sentence of this story has a typo, it should be "grew" not crew"

Yea, that was one of the first things I noticed as well!

[Lindsay Loo Larrold]

Oh yea and by the way, the fire department took their sweet time getting there. A call went in and 25 minutes later they arrived (even though it's about a 2 minute drive). If Bud Wilson had still been cheif the fire would have been contained much more quickly.

[mike stewart]

After it CREW to over a hundred acres??????????

[Angrytom]

Dennis the Menace wrote:

The first sentence of this story has a typo, it should be "grew" not crew"

And isn't "sage brush" usually referred to as sagebrush?

[Erin-Granby Co]

It's a volenteer Fire Department, I think they did a great job gathering everyone together

[KBE]

How many "prescribed burns" have gotten out of control? Too many... why do this on a windy day???