Watching neighbors rebuild after fires
It began somewhere up Ute Pass just west of Colorado Springs during a hot, dry June in 2012. Bicyclists spotted a small fire in Waldo Canyon and reported it to the authorities. But the wind had kicked up and the flames were now growing at an alarming rate, ravaging valleys and hillsides on their way toward the city. For the next eight days, we all were fixated on the horizon where the red core pulsed like a devil heart at the center of a smoke-smothered horizon. The fire came within two miles of my house. It seemed strange that the images I saw out my windows were the same as what was ...
