Our dearest friends here in Colorado Springs - Sam and Jane - thought they had lost their home in Tuesday night's firestorm. However, on Thursday they received a miracle phone call telling them that their house was still standing. You can see it in the very middle of this picture. It is the fourth house from the left in the row of gray roofs (in the group of seven houses that are in a semi circle). All of the gray spots show homes that were destroyed. On Thursday when Sam called me, I immediately started crying because Tim and I were grieving their loss with them. Sam told me that I had to stop crying - that he had some news to tell me. Then he told me that their house had been spared. Truly a miracle when you see how so much property burned around them (Photo Credit - John Wark, pilot and aerial photographer)
Our friends, Scott and Fiona, graduates of BFA, lived in this neighborhood in their parent's home. It was completely leveled in the fire as were most of the other townhouses in their development. This is just down the street from street from Sam and Jane (Photo Credit - John Wark)
Tuesday night's firestorm that came rushing down the mountain and destroyed 346 homes. Wind gusts were up to 65 mph (Photo Credit - Helen Richardson)
Photo Credit - Helen Richardson
Photo Credit - Gaylon Wampler
Photo Credit - Helen Richardson
Photo Credit - Helen Richardson
Tuesday nights mass evacuation. 32,000 people were evacuated altogether over the course of the last six days. We (Luke and I) evacuated late Tuesday night, but were able to come back home on Wednesday. Our house was so close to the mandatory evacuation zone that we did a voluntary evacuation (Photo Credit - Helen Richardson)
Evacuation (Photo Credit - Helen Richardson)
Mountain on fire (Photo Credit - Helen Richardson)
Rampart Reservoir where Tim and I have gone hiking (Photo Credit - John Wark)
