At least seven reported injured while cause of the blaze remains under investigation
Families who had been forced to flee the flames with little warning returned to their neighborhoods Friday in the towns of Louisville and Superior, with a combined population of 34,000, north of the state capital Denver, to find a patchwork of devastation.
Cathy Glaab found that her home in Superior had been turned into a pile of charred and twisted debris, one of seven houses in a row that were destroyed. “So many memories,” she said through tears. Flames had swept east through grassland and over drought-stricken neighborhoods with alarming speed, propelled by gusts up to 105mph, as tens of thousands were ordered to flee. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
The US president on Friday declared a major disaster in the area, ordering federal aid be made available to those affected.
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