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Ty's Take The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us watching the sky the way we used to watch the snowpack—checking forecasts like they're water reports, because out here the two aren't that different anymore. Rain coming Tuesday might help containment or might
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch where the valley shows its true colors—one day you're watching fireworks on F Street, the next you're tracking evacuation zones that keep creeping closer to home. The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us all
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Ty's Take We've had enough dry years up here that talk of a strong El Niño pattern tends to get folks' attention real quick—especially anyone with skin in the water game, which in Chaffee County means pretty much everybody. A wet winter and spring
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Ty's Take Fire season's come early and hard this year, with the Aspen Acres blaze already climbing into Colorado's worst on record while the Willow Fire's got people packing go-bags in their driveways—and that's the reality that'
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Ty's Take Fire season's here early and tight, water's running low even before the heat hits hardest, and somebody wants to turn Chaffee County into a server farm—all while we're about to close the offices and light off fireworks. The Fourth
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Ty's Take The Aspen Acres Fire cracking into Colorado's top ten largest should sober us all up about what's coming down the valley—and it's already here. You can smell it some mornings, see it in the sky, feel it in the