Rafters On Colorado River Watched Grizzly Creek Fire As It Blew Up Along Interstate 70

From CBS Denver:

August 11, 2020

(CBS4) – A whitewater rafting company in western Colorado started what it thought would be an ordinary day of operations on Monday, but the Grizzly Creek Fire submerged those plans. The guides launched their boats into the Colorado River about 15 minutes before the wildfire started in Glenwood Canyon.

“Definitely the craziest day I’ve had on the river,” John Brockmeier, a guide with Whitewater Rafting, told CBS4’s Jamie Leary.

“I was actually going through the river and then, all of a sudden, the color changed. The color of the river changed. I kinda started looking around, like ‘What just happened?'” Brockmeier said. “A lot of smoke had drifted in over the sun causing just everything to go to kind of a yellow-reddish hue over the river. That was kind of the first indication that things were crazy.”

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