Fire right near my city.

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Figured I would post an update on this, some stuff has happened in the last 3 to 4 days that has been like an emotional rollercoaster for everyone in this area.

The fire is still going strong, they estimate it will keep going till mid August. so far about 180 homes have been burned and there is about 30% containment, the resources have doubled since the fire first started.
They are saying it was Lightning that started this fire, the highest flames were 300 feet high in some areas.

My brother was told two days ago that his house was fine and he was let back into his neighborhood, He brought his dogs back and everything was fine, today at about 6pm he got about 6 texts and a voicemail saying new evacuations were given for his neighborhood, my entire city was completely engulfed in thick smoke for about 5 hours this afternoon and the wind was at about 55 miles per hour in the fire area it has changed direction again and is heading back to this area. I drove up with my brother to get his dogs and whatever we could get from his house. When we got near his house they had National Guard stop points at the roads leading up to his neighborhood and had blocked the roads off, when he told them that his dogs were still in the house and we were just going to grab the dogs and leave, they told him that we couldn't go up and that there was no way we could go past them. This was basically telling him that his dogs were going to die. Needless to say this was pretty upsetting, so we drove around the town to a different entrance and there was a stop point there too, we pleaded with them and they agreed to let a few cars go up with police escort and that we had to be in and out quick, luckily we were able to get his dogs and he got a few essentials and we drove his vehicles out, so now the area that was fine a few days ago is back to being on fire and another huge plume of smoke is lingering over our city, The sun was bright red today and visibility was at about 20 feet in front of you due to the thick smoke cloud covering the entire city. The Poudre Canyon is on fire now and this fire is at about 56,000 acres and growing. Its so hot here and windy that this fire is out of control.