Wildfires burned – to the edge of three small northern California towns over the weekend. Thousands of homes are now threatened and residents have retreated to emergency shelters.
“All we can do is pray” said one evacuee Jerry Nottingham.
“These are the largest number of homes we’ve had threatened so far this year,” said state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.
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A three-day-old wildfire erupted with catastrophic fury Tuesday, ripping across the foothills neighborhoods of Colorado Springs, devouring an untold number of homes and sending tens of thousands fleeing to safety in what was shaping up as one of the biggest disasters in state history. “This is a firestorm of epic proportions,” said Colorado Springs Fire Chief Richard Brown. The Waldo Canyon fire in El Paso County — which had been growing in the forested hills on the city’s west side — blew into an inferno late in the afternoon, raging over a ridge toward densely populated neighborhoods.
An apocalyptic plume of smoke covered Colorado’s second-largest city as thousands of people forced to evacuate clogged Interstate