Living with Fire: HMI’s Approach to Wildfire Preparedness
May 1, 2025
A wildfire breaks out near Twin Lakes, CO on June, 11, 2024. Photo Credit: Steve Sunday On a Tuesday afternoon in June, 2024, a plume of smoke started to rise about ten miles south of HMI’s campus. Word spread rapidly between HMI employees and residents: a wildfire had sprung up by Twin Lakes. We would come to learn that an abandoned campfire had sparked the blaze, which ultimately burned more than 700 acres of National Forest land and took firefighters two weeks to extinguish. It’s no secret that wildfires have increased in their frequency and ferocity across the American West. In Colorado, all 20 of the 20 largest wildfires in
