Investigators reveal cause of Colorado’s costliest wildfire



Investigators say remnants of a scrap fire and a sparking power line ignited a 2021 Colorado wildfire that caused $2 billion in damage. KUSA’s Kevin Vaughan reports.

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16 comments

  1. Soooooo a "religious group" burned down 1000 houses on "accident"โ€ฆya'll are dumb AF!!! ๐Ÿ˜‚

  2. This "12 Tribes" are descrbed as a fundamentialist Christian sect akin to a c@lt. Masquerading as the 12 tribes of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.

  3. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 0:53 omg ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜‚ y'all did what ๐Ÿ˜‚
    This is another example of why the ancestors don't want humans leaving their natural homelands again trying to build "democracies".

    Any native to THIS land would know you don't put dirt on embers and walk away like you're done with the fire๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ˜น๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜•๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ˜’

    Y'all must not have heard about all the fures burning underground over here for decades ๐Ÿ˜Š

    ๐Ÿ˜‚ thanks for the laughs โ˜บ๏ธ because…. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

  4. Y'all don't know your words.๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿ˜น

    Wildfire, in its correct definition, describes a fire started from natural phenomena and unexplained by anything other than that.๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

    A fire set by humans and their mechanics is arson or negligence. Just because it's burning wildly ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜น๐Ÿ˜Œhere y'all come with a dumba** misuse of vocabulary ๐Ÿ˜Š

  5. Throw them all in prison, it's very windy every day thru out the whole state of Colorado, 365 days out of the year, so dry here static electricity from your sweater will start a fire,

  6. 12 tribes is a religious cult~ not a good one either. i smell something sus ~

  7. The real cause is global warming…..does not matter what ignited it. Lets wake up

  8. 12 Tribes OF ISRAHELL ? or…. let's see.
    YEP HOW DID I GUESS?
    The Twelve Tribes describes itself on the group website as โ€œan emerging spiritual nationโ€.

    โ€œWe are a confederation of twelve self-governing tribes, made up of self-governing communities,โ€ the website proclaims. โ€œBy community, we mean families and single people who live together in homes and on farms. We are disciples of the Son of God, whom we call by His Hebrew name Yahshua.

    โ€œWe follow the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and live like the early disciples in Acts chapters 2 and 4. With all of our hearts, we want to do our Fatherโ€™s will, which is to love one another and be a light to the nations; so that they could see our life of love and know how much their Creator loves them.โ€

  9. How dumb were these people

  10. Maybe America should take some tips from Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ on wildfire๐Ÿ˜…

  11. lol it was reasonable and responsible yet they were not watching it on and off to make sure it did not ignite again i call bs

  12. As long as it was caused by the government and probably a big donor to whatever polical party is there, no problem.

  13. Another wildfire cause by humans. F #=#/#$$/$$$ Fantastic. Were getting dumber in every new year.

  14. Well now you can't really blame the people who started the burn if they got approval from the fire department. The fault here would be more of a regulatory and policy issue that needs to be corrected (e.g., putting the fire out with water and then mixing up the ash multiple times to ensure all embers are out).

  15. How did they not know that buried fire can smoulder for weeks? In Washington State that's exactly what they told me when I was young and went through a wildfire fighting course for my work in the Olympic National Forest 30 years ago. That's badly trained/ignorant firefighters right there, whoever approved that and didn't make sure it was out. This is the West, we get wind….