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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are walking to the program. Jimmy is my name,
(00:02):
Pleasure to be here. Alexander Mountain fire top of the
news obviously, and nine hundred and ninety two acres is
the one, the number that came out about an hour
and a half ago, two hours ago from the US
FOEST Service. It has taken over the lead. We've talked
about evacuation of the animals, We've talked about the Kate
Kimball with the Larimer County Sheriff, and we are talking
(00:23):
about the evacuation zones are the same as they were yesterday.
Nothing has expanded as of yet, and hopefully it will not.
But you can sign up for no co alerts. Also,
that interview with Kate Kimball is up on my website
Jimmy Leaky dot com. And when I asked her about
structures and or homes that might have already been damaged
(00:44):
or destroyed, she just said there's no information she has
on that at this point, which is a chilling answer
of sorts. But again it's not a it's not a no,
but it's not a yes. But anyway, that interview is
up at Jimmy Leaky dot com. I'm going to walk
come into the program, A guest to hop on here
real quick, last minute. Melissa Vanadelle as executive director of
(01:06):
the Red Cross in the Northern Colorado area. Melissa walking
to the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Program, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Very good and I didn't want to screw your last
name up. I'm sorry about that. Give the I'll let
you say it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You wouldn't be the first to mess it up, so
it's venable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Venable. Yes, I had the wrong I had my mm yeah,
I had them all messed up. The Red Cross obviously
jumps in on situations like this like the Alexander Mountain fire.
What is the Red Cross involvement and what what are
you guys doing and what do you know about the
situation at handed Northern Colorado.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, so right now, our involvement is we are the
primary sheltering agency for the response. We have two shelters
that are currently open, one up in Estes Park. However,
the road between Loveland and Essas Park is closed, so
if you're down on this side of the of the hill,
you would want to go Foundations Church, which is off
(02:02):
of Denver Avenue in Loveland. It's close to the Walmart. There.
You'll see signage for anybody who's been displaced by the fire.
If they're up you know, near Esses, they can head
up to Estes Park. We have a shelter set up there.
But down here in the Loveland area, we are sending
folks to Foundations Church. We have food, we have cots,
(02:23):
we are you know, we're set up, we're ready. So
anybody is you know, displaced and looking for a place
to go, we would we would love to welcome them
and provide them with services there.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Now, obviously there are pets places for Petsy. Humane Society
is handling the small pats. The ranch there at a
crossroads Boulevard nine twenty five. They're taking large animals out there.
But there is food that these evacuation shelters are cots,
everything's available. People that are out there listening want to
help out or there are things that the public can do.
Can they bring bottles of water to the shelters? I mean,
(02:55):
can they bring what? How can people help out here
if they want to?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we do have something set up for that. We
are partnering with an organization called Thurb six point eight
and they actually have their their operations is out it's
in the old it used to be the outlet malls
in Loveland. I'm not sure what the facility is called now,
but they have their building out there. We are asking
folks who have those kinds of donations to bring them
(03:21):
out to the SERF point six point eight building. It's
out on mcwinney Boulevard, I believe in Loveland, because as
the actual shelter where we're taking in people, we just
don't have the room and the capability to sort through
all of that kind of stuff, so we're doing that
off site. So once we get the donations there, then
our volunteers from six Serves six point eight will be
(03:41):
bringing them to the shelter as we need them. They're
asking for things like new toiletry items, you know, shampoos, conditioners,
choose paste, those kinds of things, as well as you know,
pet foods. We do have at our shelter in Loveland.
We do have a room where we are we are
sheltering animals as well, smaller dogs and cats, but like
(04:03):
you mentioned, other pets can be sheltered at no Co Humane.
Larger animals are going up to the ranch. We are
also now using Island Grove in Greeley to help house
some of the larger livestock type of animals.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Can you speak to how many people are taking advantage
of vacuees that have needed to use the shelter spaces.
Do you have a number or are you overwhelmed or
or is it pretty minimal?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, we're not. I wouldn't say we're overwhelmed. We did
have a good number last night. I think we had
close to thirty people actually stayed the night at the
Foundation shelter, and I think we had close to twenty
people up in Estes Park at that shelter. But what
we also do, we know that a lot of times
people don't actually stay the night at a shelter. They
may have a friend's house that they can go to,
(04:49):
or they opt to get a hotel or something like instead.
But what they do is they come back to the
shelters because they know they can get food there, they
can get information there, and those kinds of things. So
even though you know, maybe not quite as many stay
the night actually on a cot, we do have people
filtering in all day long at the shelter just you know,
trying to get some refreshments, some information, those kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The website is Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org.
That's a Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org. That's
where people can donate to the efforts of what you're
doing at these shelters. And again, what type of items
are they welcome to take it? It's by the way,
it's in the old outlet malls. I'll make Winning Boulevard
not far from the Cracker Barrel there at I twenty
(05:34):
five and in that shopping complex era what what type
of items can people bring there? Again to serve six
eight to help out evacuation.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Sure they're looking for new like toiletry items like shampoo, conditioners, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes,
those kinds of things. They can also bring gently used
men's and women clothing, children's clothing, those kinds of things
that will all be sorted out there. Also if people
are looking for information on exactly like where the shelter
(06:04):
locations are and you know how they can get checked
in and those kinds of things if they've been displaced.
Another website that they can go to is Redcross dot
org slash Colorado and we list all of that on
that site as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Redcross dot org slash Colorado. The Laramore County site has
it as well. Serve six ' eight Loveland dot. Serve
six eight dot org has a warehouse. And you heard
you can don't be taking stuff to the evacuation centers.
If you want to donate, go to serve six eight's
website and to look up Loveland and you'll see an
opportunity and where to take that stuff out. As I
(06:42):
appreciate you hopping on the program and jumping in here
kind of a last minute. Is there any other bit
of information that we need to get out there to
the old listeners here to let them know or anybody
that's facing evacuation, any other bit of information.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
No, we just want to make sure that anybody that
is evacuation that if you haven't got the order yet,
please make your kid get a plan, be ready to
roll quickly because if that evacuation order comes through, you
will need to get out quickly, So get your car
loaded now. If you've already received the order, whether it's
a mandatory or a voluntary evacuation, please feel free to
(07:19):
come to one of the Red Cross evacuation sites of
the shelters. We will be happy to get you set up,
take your information, make sure you have all of your
immediate needs taken care of. We've had some people that
have had to evacuate without being able to grab medications
and things like that. We've been able to help assist
with those kinds of things. So we just want people
to know that they can come. We are here to
(07:41):
help and to serve, and we've got plenty of room,
We've got plenty of food. So I don't want anybody
to feel like they're being a burden. If you are
in that evacuation area, please come down. We are ready
to help you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And obviously have the evacuation centers. There's news that circulates
and people find things out. When I talked to Larry
mccounty earlier, they could not have infort. They didn't have
information on any actual homes and or of structures that
have been destroyed. Do you know if that the information
gets disseminated to the residents before it goes public, is
anybody the evacuation center, to your knowledge, heard anything differently
(08:14):
than no information is available.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
No. We get our information from the county as well,
and then we obviously disseminated to our evacuees when we
get that information. You guys really know as much as
we know at this point, we do know that it
is fortunately, I don't know if that's fortunately or not,
but it is burning a lot of federal land, which
is not where homes are. So we haven't gotten any reports.
(08:37):
That doesn't mean that there haven't been homes the impact
that we just don't know, but we do know that
it is burning on primarily federal land at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Melissa Aventable, executive director of the Red Cross in Northern Colorado, Melissa,
I appreciate you hopping on the program and at the
last minute, thanks for jumping on. I appreciate you, and
take care and let us know if we can disseminate
some more information. Melissa Avnable and is an executive director
for the Red Cross talking about their response for this
Alexander Mountain fire. Let me give that website again. The
(09:07):
evacuation centers can all be found at Redcross dot org
slash Colorado, Redcross dot org slash Colorado. And if you
want to donate, do not go to the evacuation centers.
They're looking for basically toiletry items, et cetera. And that
website is Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org and
their warehouse is in the old outlet area near the
(09:29):
Cracker Barrel and it's the old Outland malls. It's mcwinnie Avenue,
mcwinnie Boulevard in Loveland. You drop supplies there. I'll be
back in just a moment. Final segment forthcoming. Lakey six
hundred k col
We are walking to the program. Jimmy is my name,
(00:02):
Pleasure to be here. Alexander Mountain fire top of the
news obviously, and nine hundred and ninety two acres is
the one, the number that came out about an hour
and a half ago, two hours ago from the US
FOEST Service. It has taken over the lead. We've talked
about evacuation of the animals, We've talked about the Kate
Kimball with the Larimer County Sheriff, and we are talking
(00:23):
about the evacuation zones are the same as they were yesterday.
Nothing has expanded as of yet, and hopefully it will not.
But you can sign up for no co alerts. Also,
that interview with Kate Kimball is up on my website
Jimmy Leaky dot com. And when I asked her about
structures and or homes that might have already been damaged
(00:44):
or destroyed, she just said there's no information she has
on that at this point, which is a chilling answer
of sorts. But again it's not a it's not a no,
but it's not a yes. But anyway, that interview is
up at Jimmy Leaky dot com. I'm going to walk
come into the program, A guest to hop on here
real quick, last minute. Melissa Vanadelle as executive director of
(01:06):
the Red Cross in the Northern Colorado area. Melissa walking
to the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Program, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Very good and I didn't want to screw your last
name up. I'm sorry about that. Give the I'll let
you say it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You wouldn't be the first to mess it up, so
it's venable.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Venable. Yes, I had the wrong I had my mm yeah,
I had them all messed up. The Red Cross obviously
jumps in on situations like this like the Alexander Mountain fire.
What is the Red Cross involvement and what what are
you guys doing and what do you know about the
situation at handed Northern Colorado.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, so right now, our involvement is we are the
primary sheltering agency for the response. We have two shelters
that are currently open, one up in Estes Park. However,
the road between Loveland and Essas Park is closed, so
if you're down on this side of the of the hill,
you would want to go Foundations Church, which is off
(02:02):
of Denver Avenue in Loveland. It's close to the Walmart. There.
You'll see signage for anybody who's been displaced by the fire.
If they're up you know, near Esses, they can head
up to Estes Park. We have a shelter set up there.
But down here in the Loveland area, we are sending
folks to Foundations Church. We have food, we have cots,
(02:23):
we are you know, we're set up, we're ready. So
anybody is you know, displaced and looking for a place
to go, we would we would love to welcome them
and provide them with services there.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Now, obviously there are pets places for Petsy. Humane Society
is handling the small pats. The ranch there at a
crossroads Boulevard nine twenty five. They're taking large animals out there.
But there is food that these evacuation shelters are cots,
everything's available. People that are out there listening want to
help out or there are things that the public can do.
Can they bring bottles of water to the shelters? I mean,
(02:55):
can they bring what? How can people help out here
if they want to?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we do have something set up for that. We
are partnering with an organization called Thurb six point eight
and they actually have their their operations is out it's
in the old it used to be the outlet malls
in Loveland. I'm not sure what the facility is called now,
but they have their building out there. We are asking
folks who have those kinds of donations to bring them
(03:21):
out to the SERF point six point eight building. It's
out on mcwinney Boulevard, I believe in Loveland, because as
the actual shelter where we're taking in people, we just
don't have the room and the capability to sort through
all of that kind of stuff, so we're doing that
off site. So once we get the donations there, then
our volunteers from six Serves six point eight will be
(03:41):
bringing them to the shelter as we need them. They're
asking for things like new toiletry items, you know, shampoos, conditioners,
choose paste, those kinds of things, as well as you know,
pet foods. We do have at our shelter in Loveland.
We do have a room where we are we are
sheltering animals as well, smaller dogs and cats, but like
(04:03):
you mentioned, other pets can be sheltered at no Co Humane.
Larger animals are going up to the ranch. We are
also now using Island Grove in Greeley to help house
some of the larger livestock type of animals.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Can you speak to how many people are taking advantage
of vacuees that have needed to use the shelter spaces.
Do you have a number or are you overwhelmed or
or is it pretty minimal?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, we're not. I wouldn't say we're overwhelmed. We did
have a good number last night. I think we had
close to thirty people actually stayed the night at the
Foundation shelter, and I think we had close to twenty
people up in Estes Park at that shelter. But what
we also do, we know that a lot of times
people don't actually stay the night at a shelter. They
may have a friend's house that they can go to,
(04:49):
or they opt to get a hotel or something like instead.
But what they do is they come back to the
shelters because they know they can get food there, they
can get information there, and those kinds of things. So
even though you know, maybe not quite as many stay
the night actually on a cot, we do have people
filtering in all day long at the shelter just you know,
trying to get some refreshments, some information, those kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The website is Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org.
That's a Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org. That's
where people can donate to the efforts of what you're
doing at these shelters. And again, what type of items
are they welcome to take it? It's by the way,
it's in the old outlet malls. I'll make Winning Boulevard
not far from the Cracker Barrel there at I twenty
(05:34):
five and in that shopping complex era what what type
of items can people bring there? Again to serve six
eight to help out evacuation.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Sure they're looking for new like toiletry items like shampoo, conditioners, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes,
those kinds of things. They can also bring gently used
men's and women clothing, children's clothing, those kinds of things
that will all be sorted out there. Also if people
are looking for information on exactly like where the shelter
(06:04):
locations are and you know how they can get checked
in and those kinds of things if they've been displaced.
Another website that they can go to is Redcross dot
org slash Colorado and we list all of that on
that site as well.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Redcross dot org slash Colorado. The Laramore County site has
it as well. Serve six ' eight Loveland dot. Serve
six eight dot org has a warehouse. And you heard
you can don't be taking stuff to the evacuation centers.
If you want to donate, go to serve six eight's
website and to look up Loveland and you'll see an
opportunity and where to take that stuff out. As I
(06:42):
appreciate you hopping on the program and jumping in here
kind of a last minute. Is there any other bit
of information that we need to get out there to
the old listeners here to let them know or anybody
that's facing evacuation, any other bit of information.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
No, we just want to make sure that anybody that
is evacuation that if you haven't got the order yet,
please make your kid get a plan, be ready to
roll quickly because if that evacuation order comes through, you
will need to get out quickly, So get your car
loaded now. If you've already received the order, whether it's
a mandatory or a voluntary evacuation, please feel free to
(07:19):
come to one of the Red Cross evacuation sites of
the shelters. We will be happy to get you set up,
take your information, make sure you have all of your
immediate needs taken care of. We've had some people that
have had to evacuate without being able to grab medications
and things like that. We've been able to help assist
with those kinds of things. So we just want people
to know that they can come. We are here to
(07:41):
help and to serve, and we've got plenty of room,
We've got plenty of food. So I don't want anybody
to feel like they're being a burden. If you are
in that evacuation area, please come down. We are ready
to help you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And obviously have the evacuation centers. There's news that circulates
and people find things out. When I talked to Larry
mccounty earlier, they could not have infort. They didn't have
information on any actual homes and or of structures that
have been destroyed. Do you know if that the information
gets disseminated to the residents before it goes public, is
anybody the evacuation center, to your knowledge, heard anything differently
(08:14):
than no information is available.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
No. We get our information from the county as well,
and then we obviously disseminated to our evacuees when we
get that information. You guys really know as much as
we know at this point, we do know that it
is fortunately, I don't know if that's fortunately or not,
but it is burning a lot of federal land, which
is not where homes are. So we haven't gotten any reports.
(08:37):
That doesn't mean that there haven't been homes the impact
that we just don't know, but we do know that
it is burning on primarily federal land at this point.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Melissa Aventable, executive director of the Red Cross in Northern Colorado, Melissa,
I appreciate you hopping on the program and at the
last minute, thanks for jumping on. I appreciate you, and
take care and let us know if we can disseminate
some more information. Melissa Avnable and is an executive director
for the Red Cross talking about their response for this
Alexander Mountain fire. Let me give that website again. The
(09:07):
evacuation centers can all be found at Redcross dot org
slash Colorado, Redcross dot org slash Colorado. And if you
want to donate, do not go to the evacuation centers.
They're looking for basically toiletry items, et cetera. And that
website is Loveland dot Serve six eight dot org and
their warehouse is in the old outlet area near the
(09:29):
Cracker Barrel and it's the old Outland malls. It's mcwinnie Avenue,
mcwinnie Boulevard in Loveland. You drop supplies there. I'll be
back in just a moment. Final segment forthcoming. Lakey six
hundred k col
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