These fires are horrible and feel for the ones affected. I have been through Poudre Canyon west of Ft. Collins cant imagine how they would control these fires. Let alone to think of the cattle on forest permits.
I hate to point a finger here but this has been coming, some 15 years ago we went on a family vacation and you could see this coming then. When lightning stikes and starts a fire, somebody up above is managing these lands, but now there are cabins and houses where they never should have been and its turning into a natural disaster. If these forest had been managed propely, controlled burns would have been in the management plan. If your not going to let mother nature take care of itself with fire then logging and grazing better be in the management plans. It is the same way here in Kansas all the state parks are overgrown with cedars if a fire was to start on a dry year it would go up in no time. I dont understand why more controlled burns are not used, I have been many places that were burnt and yes after the burn it looks bad, but go back 6 months, 1 year, 2 or 3 years later and see the flourishing lush grasses, abundant wildlife and control of invasive trees.