Stable Fire Entrapment Fatalities 1950

A wildfire fire started at noon on January 17, 1950 on Camp Carson in Colorado. Within 90 minutes, 20 buildings at the north end of the base were ablaze. The worst wildfire in El Paso County’s history claimed nine lives, injured 50 and destroyed 89 buildings worth more than $5 million at the post. Fanned by 50-70 mph winds, it burned a 50-square-mile area from the Army post up Cheyenne Mountain and to The Broadmoor hotel, which was saved by hundreds of firefighters.

Fatality, Entrapment