Four Mile Fire outside Boulder, Colorado - images...
The Four Mile fire just west of Boulder, Colorado is on our minds - hoping the best for friends and colleagues at UCAR and elsewhere in Boulder who are anxiously awaiting word on their homes. Here are some interesting links to both photography, video, and satellite images....
- Digital Globe satellite infrared imagery of the burn area: http://www.digitalglobe.com/index.php/27/Sample+Imagery+Gallery
- NASA satellite image: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1754.html
- Boulder Daily Camera images gallery: http://bit.ly/a04iMD
- YouTube videos - Four Mile fire: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Four+mile+fire&aq=f
- Denver Post - September 9: http://www.denverpost.com/news/frontpage/ci_16021847
- Sandra Fish, University of Colorado journalism instructor, is one of several social media users monitoring emergency scanners and providing news and updates about the Four Mile Fire, via Twitter. She has written an article titled Colorado's Fourmile Canyon Fire: When Community - and Twitter - Matter, with some observations about use of social media in emergency situations. (The article is published on Politics Daily, an online newspaper).