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Homes in Louisville on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, after being destroyed by the Marshall fire.

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Wildfire flames and smoke rise above Superior, Colorado, on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. Dangerously high winds raked the Front Range of Colorado on Thursday, knocking out power, making for dangerous travel conditions, and whipping up wildfires in Boulder County that destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures.

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Thursday’s wildfires in Boulder County destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures. This is what was left of one Louisville neighborhood on Friday evening, Dec. 31, as snow be began to fall.

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Shay Smith looks at the rains of his family’s car, and his mother Linda Cooper walks through the remains of the home they rented in a Louisville neighborhood on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, after it was destroyed by the Marshall fire. The Marshall fire ignited Dec. 30, 2021, in Boulder County and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in and around Superior and Louisville, and left thousands of people scrambling to evacuate, driven by winds that sometimes exceeded 100 mph.

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