Boulder firm’s mission: Watch the wind

If only raising cash for prototype were a breeze

BERTHOUD — Initial reports of smoke in the Waldo Canyon area near Colorado Springs began filtering in to local fire departments on June 22, 2012. But first responders looked for the source of the smoke until dark that day, to no avail.

Flames weren’t located until around noon the next day – and by then dry and windy conditions had the blaze well on its way to becoming what was at the time the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history.

Now, a Boulder-based company has developed a wind-mapping device it…