The MSM is reporting that the fire today is the worst in Colorado history. This is patently absurd, it isn’t even in the same league as some of the fires from the 1890s..
The 1890 fire is responsible for the spectacular Aspen groves along the Sangre de Cristo mountains today.

Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle June 25, 1890
This is what that the burn looks like 120 years later, just above Santa Fe.











