Decade after Hayman fire, questions linger about fire’s start

Ten years after the biggest fire in the state’s worst fire season — which famously prompted then-Gov. Bill Owens to declare, “It looks as if all of Colorado is burning” — not one important detail of Forest Service employee Terry Barton’s account of the fire’s beginnings is uncontested.

Ten years after, it is still unclear exactly how the Hayman fire started.

Or why.

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   hoping this summer isn’t as bad as that. already has the conditions for it…

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