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A wildfire in the Stone Canyon area near Lyons prompted multiple evacuations on July 30, including in the northern and western areas of town. The fire claimed the life of one person, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, and destroyed five homes.
As of Aug. 5, the fire was fully contained. It burned approximately 1,500 acres.
Response efforts included more than 100 firefighters from a dozen agencies on the ground and multiple air tankers.
That’s a “related” article that is generated automatically given the topic.
I can understand rationales given by both Elaine and Stacy. I, too, occasionally get ‘startled’ by historical links in trending stories across the web. It seems that fewer folks, every day, are able to infer intent & purpose from context. Would it be possible to categorize those as “Related Historical Events”, and tag them as such?
Just thinking of a relatively simple solution.
Thanks, Bob. We can definitely look into whether we can change the label on related historical content.
May God be with all the fire fighters and first responders. My heart goes out to all that are affected by these fires . You are in my prayers . God bless 🙏
Well said Bob 🙏
Thanks for mentioning the Boulder Reservoir. Am new to town, was there yesterday from 16:30-18:30, & there was not only three young guys swimming around in it together (tho it is posted NoSwimming zone if I recall correctly), and the regular dogs were playing in it as well. I never walk along the muddy shore and eventually left due to subtle eye irritation assumably from ambient smoke particulate. There was no noticeable signage upon entrance at the west trailhead parking lot. I’m talking blazing flourescent red postboard or something because often, especially if near dusk, people go there to unwind and phase out, not necessarily paying attention to snake signage updates etc (people certainly ignore and disrespect seasonally the pet waste mandate, but that’s another story…)
As soon as BOCO Pks&Rec realized the run-off, better yet as a general rule to commemcement of “fire season,” they should’ve made an obvious, physically on-site, communication attempt for citizens not on social media. Thanks for letting us know. Fire mitigation/extinguishment tech-niques should be updated in this era. They’ve had their fair run of use. The consequences aren’t worth repeat loss of precious money/time/extended resources/environment damage.
Thanks, Tim. Keep On. 🙂