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Rubble smolders from a home consumed by fire a day earlier, in Estes Park, 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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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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A firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Flames erupt atop a ridge 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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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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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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Hotshots during burnout operations at the Gila National Forest blaze.

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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 wildfire burns 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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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.