June 24, 2002

Texas Baptist Men still serving
on edge of Colorado wildfires
___By John Hall
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Texas Baptist Men continue serving meals to firefighters and victims of the Hayman fire in Colorado.
___The team, which has been in Colorado since June 8, has served at least 900 meals a day from Castle Rock, southwest of Denver.
___The meal count has increased as other emergency food service sites are evacuated and workers are moved to the Douglas County Fair Grounds, where Texas Baptist Men are serving.
___"You get the opportunity to witness to people in distress," said Tim Willis of First Baptist Church in Plains. "You get to help people. We are largely working with relief workers and firefighters, but there is still a need to feed and witness."
___Jeff Roper, on-site leader of the unit from First Baptist Church of Plains, said the team may remain on location for several more weeks. Replacement crews are arriving from Gordon and Plains. Several members of the Tarrant Baptist Association disaster relief unit were scheduled to drive to Colorado June 21.
___Officials have evacuated 7,500 people because of the largest of the Colorado wildfires. The blaze has charred 120,000 acres of the state and is threatening the southwestern suburbs of Denver. Drought continues to leave much of the country susceptible to wildfires, which have burned 1.5 million acres in the western half of the nation and Alaska in 2002.

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