From My Window… God bless the firefighters; Range Call begins Wednesday

Smoke to the left of us, smoke to the right of us; smoke all around us. That seems to be the battle cry for the past two weeks for those of us in Rio Blanco County.
Thank God for the firefighters!
Firefighters have been fighting major blazes around Rifle, around Dinosaur National Monument — it seems everywhere but Rio Blanco County. Then that changed.
There was the Collins Fire in Piceance Basin,…