Erratic Western Wildfires
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Flames from the Waldo Canyon Wildfire move into subdivisions and destroy homes in Colorado Springs, Colo. More than 900 firefighters are working to contain the fire, the largest in the state's history. As of June 27, when the fire doubled in size, it was more than 15,000 acres. More than 32,000 people were forced to flee their homes.
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Rubble smolders from a home consumed by fire a day earlier, in Estes Park, Colo.
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A helicopter dumps fire retardant as flames of the Waldo Canyon Fire race down into western portions of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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A man stops to capture video before fleeing the Waldo Canyon Fire as it raced down into western portions of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Firefighters prepare to head into neighborhoods caught by the Waldo Canyon Fire after it swept down into western portions of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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People flee the Waldo Canyon Fire with little time to spare as the blaze burns through neighborhoods west of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Flames from the Waldo Canyon Fire move quickly move through the western side Colorado Springs, Colo., causing several structures and homes to burn.
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A firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo.
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President Barack Obama talks with firefighters as he tours the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by a wildfire in, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Incident Commander Rich Harvey uses a map as he talks about the Waldo Canyon wildfire during a briefing in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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A helicopter carrying water heads to a burning ridge as a fire truck drives toward the Scratch Gravel Hills Wildfire north of Helena, Mont. Scorching heat and high winds caused wildfires to break out across southwestern Montana, forcing the evacuation of more than 200 homes.
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Jeff Corum Jr. stands in the charred ruins of his father's home on Kings Canyon Road in Bellvue, Colo., as residents within the fire zone were allowed to return home by authorities.
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Martin Jiles looks over the ashes of his home that was destroyed by the High Park Fire in the Glacier View residential area near Livermore, Colo.
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A member of the Colorado National Guard stands watch at a road block leading to homes in the Mountain Shadow area of Colorado Springs, Colo.
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A utilities worker makes his way through the rubble of a home destroyed by the Waldo Canyon Fire in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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The stairs that led to a home destroyed by the High Park Wildfire in Poudre Canyon, west of Fort Collins, Colo.
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A home that was destroyed by the High Park Fire is framed through burned trees in the Glacier View residential area near Livermore, Colo.
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A Sikorsky S-64 Aircrane firefighting helicopter drops water on a hotspot burning close to homes near Laporte, Colo. The High Park Fire in Larimer County is now the largest in the state's history. The fire has charred nearly 60,000 acres and destroyed 189 homes, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
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Michelle Mellenthin and Chris Huizenga watch firefighting efforts from a Jeep near Laporte, Colo. Huizenga's family lives close by and was evacuated from their home because of the fire.
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A large crowd of people cheer as firefighters and others make their way back to Holmes Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. after spending the day battling the Waldo Canyon Fire.
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A sign warns motorists of the closure of Highway 14 through Poudre Canyon as columns of smoke rise in the distance from the High Park wildfire.
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Army National Guardsmen Spc. Rachel Cornett, Sgt. Timothy Apodaca and Colorado State Patrol officer Edwardo Gomez look over a map of the High Park wildfire at a road block into the Poudre Canyon west of Fort Collins, Colo.
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A sign thanking firefighters is attached to a fence of a home that was surrounded by the High Park wildfire near Bellvue, Colo.
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An Air Crane firefighting helicopter moves toward a pond to refill its tank while fighting the High Park wildfire west of Fort Collins, Colo.
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A house is surrounded by burned grass as a result of the High Park wildfire near Bellvue, Colo.
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Flames erupt atop a ridge near Laporte, Colo.
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A Sikorsky S-64 Aircrane firefighting helicopter circles as it prepares to drop water on a hotspot near Laporte, Colo.
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Flames leap hundreds of feet in the air as the High Park wildfire fire explodes on the south side of Poudre Canyon west of Fort Collins, Colo.
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The sun sets amidst smoke from the High Park Fire near Bellvue, Colo.
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A firefighter works an area along the northwest perimeter of a massive blaze in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. The fire, which started as two separate fires ignited by lightning, became the largest in the state's history.
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Fire retardant is dropped on a wildfire from a plane in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
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A section of the Gila National Forest is barren as a result of the largest wildfire in New Mexico's recorded history. As of June 14, the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire had scorched more than 280,000 acres.
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Firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshots of Prescott, Ariz., cut a fire line along a mountain ridge outside Mogollon, N.M.
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Hotshots during burnout operations at the Gila National Forest blaze.
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A firefighter pauses with his chainsaw as he works along a perimeter in an effort to contain the nation's largest wildfire in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.
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The Whitewater-Baldy Fire Complex, a large blaze burning in a mountainous part of Gila National Forest in western New Mexico. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired the image at 2:40 p.m. local time on May 23, 2012.
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A massive blaze in the Gila National Forest burns east of Glenwood, N.M.
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A wildfire burns in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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A wildfire in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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The charred remains of a home at Topaz Ranch Estates as the fire that began the day before burns in the distance, in Wellington, Nev.
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Investigators work the scene where a wildfire started south of Gardnerville, Nev.
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Firefighters battle a wildfire south of Gardnerville, Nev. The fast-moving blaze near the Nevada-California line destroyed at least two homes as it forced evacuations and sent massive plumes of black smoke into the sky.
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Firefighters battle a wildfire south of Gardnerville, Nev.
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Firefighters battle a wind-driven fire in Topaz Ranch Estates, south of Gardnerville, Nev.
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