Getting awfully close to my folks' old home in West Colorado Springs. Their house was on N. 17th St., between Uintah & Colorado Avenue. The assisted living facility they spent the last 9 months of their lives at is on 21st, between Colorado Ave. & I suppose Hwy 24. They could see Pikes Peak from their kitchen window. So devastating. Alice On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Colleen <ladyaudris@earthlink.net> wrote: > The West side of Colorado Springs is on fire -- west of I25.  The Air > Force Academy has been evacuated.  Many homes in the Mountain Shadows > housing area are burning -- many of them.  Flying W Ranch is gone. > > Southbound I-25 is closed at Interquest Parkway.  Highway 24 has been > closed since Friday from Manitou to Woodland. > > We're about 30 miles south of the fire, so we're safe, but the smoke is > HEAVY. > > This is so, so devastating.... > > To see some of the pictures or view footage, go to koaa.com, kktv.com, > krdo.com, gazette.com .  Denver has a news team down here but I don't > know the call letters. > > Colorado Springs is on fire... > Colleen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message