Bromfield, Colorado (KDVR) – Colorado state is preparing for a calm awareness month in May. The leaders announced on Thursday the main aspects of the state guard expectations Preparation plan For 2025.
The state leaders said that Colorado is ready to fight fires in the upcoming forest fire season, even if support from the federal government is still unclear.
“In an ordinary season of wild fires, we will see approximately 6000 fires throughout the state of Colorado and burn 150 to 160,000 acres, so when we say naturally, please, as director Heilky said, the governor said, he does not let your forefathers fall. We will have big fires.”
State leaders want societies ready for forest fires. Although they said that the danger of the forest fire for this summer is average, they said the average is still active. They said that the state’s forest service and the natural resource department have invested $ 15 million in already mitigation efforts this year.
“The forest service in the state has bent seriously in helping societies throughout the state or developing a burning fire incendiary protection plan, which gives everyone a clear sense of the whereabouts of values and risks and what we can do to reduce these risks and prepare when forest fires come,” said Matt Macumbis, Forest Service Director in Colorado, said.
Leaders warned against increasing risk in April and May in the southeastern part of the state and a high risk in the southwestern part of the state in the summer. While they said that the state is ready and working with other agencies to put out fires, the questions surrounding the support and possible discounts of the federal government remain.
“We have made efforts to try to restore our destiny. We have wonderful federal partnerships that cannot exist without it. But also, we sought to ensure that we have the ability to respond without the need to rely on common resources with all other states that suffer from fire,” said Stan Hilki, CEO of Colorado.
“From our point of view, we do not know exactly and I do not think that people on our federal side know exactly what will happen and the situations that will be eliminated. We are grateful so far because law enforcement sites and firefighters have been exempt many places. Governor Jared Police said that business on roads and maintenance, these are some areas that were subject to cuts.”
The forest service said it is actively assigning 220 additional firefighters to prepare for this season. The leader of the state’s land management office said that many cuts that occurred in the service of forests were restored. He said that the remaining shortage of the last retirement.