Tom Tancredo: “as we stand here tonight on the floor of the House, fires are raging in my State of Colorado, fires so devastating…”

“as we stand here tonight on the floor of the House, fires are raging in my State of Colorado, fires so devastating, fires so great in proportion. Historically, they are great in proportion, and they are so big that they can be seen, as we are told now, from the Space Shuttle. The smoke and ash from the fires in Colorado can be seen by the people on the Space Shuttle. These are in every sense of the word catastrophic fires. The one burning closest to my home, the Hayman fire, is over 100,000 acres, I understand, and will probably be burning all summer long. Hard for people to understand that, hard for anybody to get a handle on that concept; but it will probably be burning all summer long we are told, and that is just one fire. There are several others going. There are several starting also, and this one started last Friday. Many of these are being started by arsonists. It is incredible, but that is what is happening in and around Colorado.”