A tweet posted on the crew’s account said 18 volunteers “mass resigned”
A message posted February 11, 2008 on the Twitter accountThe Wildland Fire Crew in El Paso County Colorado stated that 18 volunteer firefighters on the crew “mass resigned.” A follow up tweet read, “They said the environment became hostile to the volunteers and they felt they were no longer needed or wanted.” El Paso County is the location of Colorado Springs.
The El Paso County fire crew is part of the County Sheriff’s office which is headed by Sheriff Bill Elder. The Colorado and Wyoming fire departments are the same. The sheriff is responsibleWildfire suppression in unincorporated areas within the fire protection district. This role is given to the County Judge in Texas.
In a response to the tweets about the resignations, the Sheriff’s office issued a response to what they described as the “unauthorized, inaccurate tweet from the EPC Wildland Fire Twitter Account.” The response, posted below, said, “While there have been some resignations by members of the EPC Wildland Fire Team, the information posted was not accurate.” The statement did not specify what was inaccurate in the tweets about the resignations.
El Paso County Sheriff Responds to Mass Resignations Wildland Fire Crew
In the past 20 years, El Paso County has seen some of the most devastating wildfires. The Waldo Canyon Fire destroyed 347 homes in Colorado Springs and burned more than 18,000 acres. It also killed two people. A year later, the Black Forest Fire erupted east from the city. It destroyed 486 homes and burned over 15,000 acres. In 2002, the Hayman Fire destroyed 133 homes and blackened 137760 acres. In 2018, the MM 117 fire destroyed 431,000 acres and 23 houses.
I took this photo in 2014, while riding my motorcycle through Northern California. It was of an engine crew from El Paso County. They were staging in Chester.
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