One Colorado couple returned home to find the mailbox about the only thing left standing. 9News
A view of a Boulder County neighborhood that was destroyed by a wildfire is seen from a Colorado National Guard helicopter.
Tens of thousands were ordered to flee as the flames, propelled by gusts up to 169 kph, swept over drought-stricken neighborhoods with alarming speed. Todd Lovrien looks over the fire damage from the Marshall Wildfire at his sisters home in Louisville.“By the time I got up here, the houses were completely engulfed,” he said. “I mean, it happened so quickly. I’ve never seen anything like that. … Just house after house, fences, just stuff flying through the air, just caught on fire.”
The wildfire broke out unusually late in the year, following an extremely dry fall and amid a winter nearly devoid of snow so far. Sarah Owens, her husband, adult son and their dog got out of their Superior home within 10 minutes of learning about the evacuation from a Facebook post. But as everyone tried leaving by way of the winding streets of the well-to-do Rock Creek neighborhood, it took them 90 minutes to go three kilometres.
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