Key takeaways:
- ‘Individuals don’t even know if their homes are standing.’
- Snow surrounds the scorched remains of houses in Louisville, Colo.
The state will take some time to recover from wildfires:
An Islander living in Colorado states it’s heading to take a long time to reconstruct following wildfires that devastated territories of the state about New Year’s Eve.
Heidi Rankin has been staying in Colorado for seven years. She just moved to Boulder to be nearer to her grandchildren.
She stated her home was nearly four miles away from one of the fire sites that radiated through towns between Denver and Boulder amid weighty winds. It destroyed about 1,000 houses and caused tens of thousands of people to vacate their houses.
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Rankin stated she was replacing from a journey to the mountains when the blazes began Thursday, and that she could see all the smoke and ashes billowing up over red skies.
“Everybody was starting to be routed off of main roads,” she stated. “So we headed for home and the winds were already blowing gusty… They were over 100 miles an hour. And so the fires, which they consider were begun from some downed power lines, the wind just took them across the grass very, very fast.” Source – cbc.ca
She stated the smoke was “already pretty thick” as they came to Boulder. “And then it just got worse so quickly.” Source – cbc.ca
