Federal forest service resources) before additional Federal or Guard or military resources are provided. But, this is fairly continuous and almost done in parallel now that there are 10 major fires in Colorado. It isn't as though they sit around with no response waiting for Federal/DOD/Guard assets to be deployed. Once an assessment that local and state resources are inadequate for control/containment, steps are taken to move Federal resources into place. The state's emergency management group and governor's office are in continuous contact with Federal and cross-state authorities to ensure those resources are provided. The largest of the fires, that outside Fort Collins has had a level one FEDERAL incident management team in place and ensuring all necessary resources are provided since day 2 of the fire.
This is also how FEMA requests work for hurricanes and other natural disasters, but again, because the risk for additional fires is so high, the FEDS and DOD resources are not being delayed. Daily the FEDS are reevaluating the situation, not only in Colorado and New Mexico, but throughout the west and pre-planning deployment of these resources.
And no, the fire departments locally in COlorado Springs as well as in the other fire areas are NOT private companies. They are tax-payer supported local departments, despite the RW anti-tax policies.
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