Kerry Matre was sitting at home with her eight-year-old daughter and three dogs on June 30 when a friend ran into her house and told her the fire was coming down a gully, only yards from her house. She went outside expecting the fire to be coming from the northeast, in the direction of the Alexander Mountain fire that had already started but she didn’t see any flames…
Boulder County Homes Survive "Wall of Flames" During Stone Canyon Fire
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