Firefighters in Colorado braced for high winds that threatened to blow the state’s most destructive fire in recorded history from treetop to treetop on Sunday.
Worst Colorado Wildfire In History Burns 55,000 Acres, 181 Homes
By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Sun, 06/17/2012 - 2:36pm
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