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Photo of the fire plume taken on July 10 at 7:20 p.m. looking east from Salida. Photo by P.T. Wood.
Photo of the fire plume taken on July 10 at 7:20 p.m. looking east from Salida. Photo by P.T. Wood.

By Mike Rosso

It was first reported by a San Luis Valley resident on Friday, July 8. Apparently a fierce lightning storm had been swirling around the Hayden Pass area, high in the Sangre De Cristo mountains. The witness observed a strike and then a plume of smoke rising from atop the pass.