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Taylor Korn, and her roommate, Jorge Zaragoza, with their dogs Gerti (left) and Gidget. The third dog is Scarlett, a rescue dog and the mother of the other two pups, belongs to Korn's friends and was elsewhere during the fire.

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After losing everything in the Colorado wildfires, she's struggling to start over

8:15am January 02, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Taylor Korn, a lifelong Boulder, Colo., resident, had already lost her father and grandmother this past summer. Then a wildfire took her home and two dogs.

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Eight inches of snow on Friday and early Saturday helped extinguish the wildfires that prompted the evacuation of more than 30,000 people in suburban Colorado.

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Snow puts out Colorado wildfires with 3 people missing and nearly 1,000 homes burned

6:05pm January 01, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Local officials said three people were still unaccounted for after the most destructive wildfires in Colorado history. Authorities also raised the count of homes destroyed to nearly 1,000.

Dec. 30: Broomfield, Colo. — Homes burn as a wildfire rips through a development near Rock Creek Village.

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Photos: Wildfires engulf 1,000 homes in suburban Denver

3:56pm December 31, 2021

The Colorado wildfires follow an unusually dry fall and winter in the state. Officials suspect the blaze was caused by downed power lines.

Damage to homes burned by wildfires after they ripped through a development are shown Friday in Superior, Colo.

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Urban wildfires burned 6,000 acres near Denver

2:31pm December 31, 2021

by Tom Goldman

Officials call it a miracle that there've been no reports of deaths in the blazes, which destroyed at least 500 homes — and perhaps twice that number. In some cases families had just minutes to flee.

Burn ban remains in place for Triad and High Country

4:26pm December 09, 2021

by Paul Garber

State forest fire officials have lifted an outdoor burn ban for about one-third of the state's counties.

Smoke shrouds parts of Lake Tahoe visible from the Ski Run Marina in downtown South Lake Tahoe on Monday.

Responders Are Gaining On The Caldor Fire, But Now They've Got New Blazes To Battle

11:58am September 07, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

More containment on the fire near Lake Tahoe means that some residents have been able to return, but a rash of new "suspicious" fires erupted over Labor Day weekend, officials say.

Mimi Routh, 79, unloads a suitcase from her car after evacuating from the Tahoe Senior Plaza to a shelter in nearby Gardnerville, Nev.

At A Shelter, Lake Tahoe Residents Fleeing A Massive Fire Wonder What's Next

6:00am September 03, 2021

An estimated 50,000 people have been evacuated as the Caldor Fire rages on. Shelters are filling up and hotel rooms are hard to find, leaving evacuees struggling to cope with the uncertainty.

This aerial photo taken from an airplane on July 27 shows smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh in Russia's Sakha Republic in northeastern Siberia.

For The 1st Time In Recorded History, Smoke From Wildfires Reaches The North Pole

5:50pm August 10, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

Smoke from forest fires in Siberia also has stretched to Mongolia, Canada and Greenland. The fires are already an unusual occurrence for a region known as one of the coldest places on the planet.

Flames consume a home on Highway 89 as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021.

The Dixie Fire Has Destroyed Most Of A Historic Northern California Town

10:26am August 05, 2021

by The Associated Press

The wildfire tore through Greenville, a town dating back to the Gold Rush Era, in the northern Sierra Nevada. The wildfire is currently the largest in California.

The British Columbia Wildfire Service is responding to multiple fires in the province this week. Two wildfires pictured here, the Long Loch wildfire and the Derickson Lake wildfire, are in close proximity and estimated to be 740 acres combined in size.

The Deadly Heat Wave Is Triggering Dozens Of Wildfires In Western Canada

12:28pm July 01, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The town of Lytton, British Columbia, caught fire and was completely evacuated Wednesday, just one day after setting a new all-time Canadian heat record with a high of 121 degrees Fahrenheit.