As many as 100 scientists studying wildfires, smoke, air pollution and climate change lived in or near the two towns in Colorado where over 1,000 homes were destroyed in December.
Colorado’s Marshall Fire, which incinerated over a half-billion dollars’ worth of homes near Boulder in December, is likely to become the most investigated wildfire in U.S. history.
They are finding that the Dec. 30 fire, which burned 1,084 homes to the ground and spread flaming embers, toxic ashes and gases over a much wider area, exposed a large gap in knowledge of the risks of living in what scientists call the “wildland urban interface.” Then a record drought hit the area in late fall and winter of 2021. It turned the grasslands into what amounted to kindling, waiting for a spark. It came on Dec. 30. The flames and embers were driven by 100-mph wind gusts toward the two towns.
The result is more toxic than what a forest fire would leave, he explained in an interview. Friends of his who lived in the burned-out area are still bothered by strange scents in the air six weeks after the fire. He was put on a team examining the relative flammability of different kinds of houses. He also used drones to study the landscape around them. He managed to get his first aerial survey aloft before a snowstorm covered the burned areas.
“We are going into the field to rapidly collect data and get it out into the public,” she explained. Most of the research on wildfires up to now has been largely supported by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
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