Hotspots: A Closer Look at the Video Evidence
This video was published only days after the Marshall Fire. The Producer makes no reference to Rocky Flats. In making this video, Mr. Cannon was presumably unaware of our local history. How can we local Coloradan’s explain what he sees here?
https://youtu.be/UDaIypWsOy4?si=fRwtAz81pGX0sbQb
Of course, not everything in this video is correct. A downed powerline was found near the site where a fire developed, and many lawsuits are in place against Xcel currently. However, if you have taken interest, there comes a point about 4 minutes in when Mr. Cannon begins to talk about "Hotspots" that were visible to satellite many hours before the wildfire on land was witnessed.
I found this troubling because these Hotspots appear as early as 2am, long before the fire would be seen by those few brave souls who were outside, braced against the wind. This first official spotting of the fire was called in at 11:09 as I understand it, and it so happened that Mountain View/Weld County Fire Department spotted the shed on the Twelve Tribes property only moments later. By 11:20am, they called in backup to say that the fire was already out of control.
This pattern of hotspots, for the moment, is the object of my concern.
Please take note of the fact that heat is being documented as early as 2am on the morning of the Marshall Fire. The emergency that followed is well understood. Books have been written on the subject.
Here are a number of videos that document different moments of the Marshlall Fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjF4HNcKyaw
https://lets-talk-boulder.podbean.com/e/good-fire-bad-fire-and-climate-change/
Even with all this information, no answer to the question of how the fire come to collect so much fuel has been officially advanced. This is called the problem of the missing ERC.
*This language of ERC vs BI is relating directly to the language of the Marshal Fire Facilitated Learning Analysis published in October of last year.
The natural theory is this: It was a downward wind pattern. The Chinook wind were pushing 115 mph to some places, and still the downward wind cycle would not relent. I would think that this is a contributing factor. However, the soil that was being baked by the fire's hot wind is very likely contaminated from the 1969 fire in which Rocky Flats burned.
Here is some history on the two major fires that took place prior to the closure of the plant.
And, from this point forward, investigators of the Marshall Fire, I think, are obliged to line up a few non-natural theories:
Could released plutonium have led to a criticality of some sort?
Could there have been other ways plutonium, or other volatile compounds and heavy metals from Rocky Flats made their way into or around the base of Marshal Mesa?
How the fire began may be well established, although how the fire burned has not sufficiently been asked. To accurately understand the catastrophe Coloradans call the Marshall Fire, the history of Rocky Flats sits quietly by like a half century old dance partner, fully expecting to be seriously entertained.
-Travis
