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DEEP SNOW JUMP
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Jason Steel(cq), top, leaps from a roof in Nederland, landing in five feet of soft snow, while his neighbor Matthew (who refused to give his last name) watches. The two men were helping to clear each other's roofs as well as their neighbors'.
MARCH 20 2003
Photo by Marty Caivano
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Becky Martinek takes a break from shoveling out her driveway in Lefthand Canyon a mile east of Ward on Wednesday. Martinek's house was half-buried on the front side and completely buried on the back side. She said the last time it snowed so much was in 1986, when she couldn't leave the house for five days.
MARCH 19 2003
Photo by Carmel Zucker
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Quinter Fike (CQ Quinter Fike) cleans up charred scraps of wood from the former site of one of his cabins off County Road 87J outside Jamestown, Colo., on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2003. Fike is one of the property owners and renters that are suing Xcel Energy for damages sustained during the Overland Fire.
PHOTO BY BARTON GLASSER
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Quinter Fike (CQ Quinter Fike) cleans up charred scraps of wood from the former site of one of his cabins off County Road 87J outside Jamestown, Colo., on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2003. Fike is one of the property owners and renters that are suing Xcel Energy for damages sustained during the Overland Fire.
PHOTO BY BARTON GLASSER
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LEFTHAND CANYON FIRE
Photo by Cliff Grassmick
Peter Stoller of Four Mile Fire District, leads a group of exhausted firefighters up Lefthand Canyon to do the remaining mop up work on the fire that started Saturday night.
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Photo by Cliff Grassmick
Peter Stoller of Four Mile Fire District, left, and Neil Kjack, of Lefthand Fire and Rescue, put out the hot spots at the Lefthand Canyon fire on Sunday.
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LEFTHAND CANYON FIRE
Photo by Cliff Grassmick
Dave Keyek, left, relieves Peter Stoller, as Neil Kjack, right, waits to spray water on one of the hot spots on the Lefthand Canyon fire on Sunday.
LEFT HAND FIRE
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Firefighters from the Left Hand Fire Protection District limb trees and clear underbrush on the edge of a 3/4-acre fire in Lefthand Canyon on Sunday afternoon. The small blaze may have been caused by people shooting off flare guns in the Forest Service-owned shooting area.?????
photo by Marty Caivano
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Doug Young of Sunshine Fire Protection District jumps down from a fire engine after filling it with water pumped from a pond on Fourmile Canyon Road on Saturday. The water was trucked to a new cistern that will be used to fight fires in the Sunshine Canyon area.
photo by Carmel Zucker
PINE BROOK FIRE
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City of Boulder Firefighters from Stations 5 and 7 work to protect homes in the Wonderland Lake area of Boulder on Saturday morning.
Photo by Paul Aiken
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City of Boulder Firefighters from Stations 5 and 7 work to protect homes in the Wonderland Lake area of Boulder on Saturday morning.
Photo by Paul Aiken
MEADOW BROOK FIRE
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A single engine bomber lays down a blanket of fire suppressant on the hillside west of Wonderland Lake near Broadway and Lee Hill Saturday afternoon. The fire\, which started late Friday night, burned nearly 500 acres and is 100 percent contained according to the Boulder County Sheriffs Department.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
Firefighters from the Lefthand Fire District march up the mountain to the Lefthand Canyon fire on Friday.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
A slurry bomber drops on the ridge of a fire in Lefthand Canyon Friday.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
A slurry bomber drops on the ridge of a fire in Lefthand Canyon Friday.
Overland Fire
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
George Alps keeps track of the fire near the ranch Lefthand Canyon Road were he works. He moved out livestock earlier in the day.
Overland Fire
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
A firetruck heads up Highway 36 North of Boulder to work the Overland Fire near Lefthand Canyon. The smoke of the fire covers the horizon.
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Flames from the Overland fire burn through the trees as two men load a trailer home and prepare to evacuate in Left Hand Canyon Wednesday afternoon.
photo by Patrick Kelley
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Tom Tuggle, right, and his daughter Kenna, 12, left, watch from a safe distance as the Overland Fire continues to burn through Left Hand Fire Wednesday afternoon. "We are sure she is safe but he hope that her house is O.K." Said Tuggle about his Daughter's teachers house which was up near Jamestown.
photo by Patrick Kelley
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Colorado State Fire Service Firefighter Bob Bundy uses a technique called "Cold Trailing" to smother a burning tree stump in Heil Valley Ranch Thursday afternoon. The area that Bundy and his crew were working was where the controlled burn met with the uncontrolled Overland Fire Wednesday afternoon which protected much of the western part of Heil Valley Ranch.
Photo by Patrick Kelley
OVERLAND FIRE
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Steven Strack and his mother Connie Strack of Milliken, Colorado look at the fire flare up as they ignore warning to leave the Lefthand Canyon area. The Stracks said they had come to the canyon to help a friend evacuate their home.
Photo by Paul Aiken
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Flames light up the twilight as the Overland fire crests a ridge visible from Highway 36 Wednesday evening.
photo by Kirk Speer
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Colorado State Firefighter Cory Secher smothers one of the remaining spots of smoldering earth leftover from the Overland Fire Thursday afternoon in Heil Valley Ranch. This area was part of a controlled burn which helped stop the Overland Fire from progressing through the valley.
Photo by Patrick Kelley
OVERLAND FIRE
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Flames leap skyward reaching heights of nearly 100 feet through the trees in the Overland fire Wednesday night.
PHOTO BY MARK LEFFINGWELL
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View of the Overland Fire from US 36 on Davidson Mesa
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View of the Overland Fire from US 36 on Davidson Mesa
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Andrew Brislin(CQ) of Boulder snaps pictures Wednesday of the Overland Fire from Left hand Canyon as the fire consumed close to 500((((check this fact)))) acres by days end.
photo taken OCT 29, 2003 by jon hatch
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With a chainsaw over his shoulder, firefighter Brian Crawford with Cherryvale Fire Department watches the fire work as crews from Boulder Rural Fire and Cherryvale Fire Departments work a back burn fire Wednesday as the Overland Fire consumed close to 500((((check this fact)))) acres by days end.
photo taken OCT 29, 2003 by jon hatch
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With a chainsaw over his shoulder, firefighter Brian Crawford with Cherryvale Fire Department watches the fire work as crews from Boulder Rural Fire and Cherryvale Fire Departments work a back burn fire Wednesday as the Overland Fire consumed close to 3500 acres.
OCT 29, 2003
PHOTO BY JON HATCH
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Pictured from the town of Jamestown, fire consumes pine trees on a ridge Wednesday as the Overland Fire consumed close to 500((((check this fact)))) acres by days end.
photo taken OCT 29, 2003 by jon hatch
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Smoke from the Overland fire near Jamestown in Left Hand Canyon as seen from the Lac Amora neighborhood in Broomfield on Wednesday.
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Smoke from the Overland fire near Jamestown in Left Hand Canyon as seen from the Lac Amora neighborhood in Broomfield on Wednesday.
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Smoke from the Overland fire near Jamestown in Left Hand Canyon as seen from the Lac Amora neighborhood in Broomfield on Wednesday.
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Cool weather bringing fog and precipitation settles into the town of Jamestown early Thursay morning after the Overland Fire consumed about to 5000 acres. Jamestown (((and Lake of the Pines??))) residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
Firefighters from the Ute Mountain Fire District out of Towaoc,CO, dig fire line during mop up work of the Overland Fire on Thursday.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
One of the homes on County Road 87J did not survive the Overland Fire Wednesday. The cold, wet weather helped knock the fire down on Thursday.
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
The stump of a burned out tree on County Road 87J outside of Jamestown on Thursday.
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Firefighters with Sunshine Fire Protection District front to back Tom Higbee(CQ), Henry Ballard(CQ) and Don Dick(CQ) look for hot spots while mopping up Thursday on property above Jamestown after the Overland Fire consumed about to 5000 acres. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch
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Nolan Farmer(CQ), of Jamestown, cries as he realizes how close his house was to the path of the Overland Fire Thursday morning after he returned home from being evacuated. The Overland Fire, which consumed about 5000 acres and came within 40 yards from he and his wife Nancy's home of 25 years that sits above Jamestown. "It was only a matter of time before this brush went up in flames," Farmer said, "You've got to expect this after watching the fuels build up after so long. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch
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Nolan Farmer(CQ), of Jamestown, photographs his house amidst the damage done by the Overland Fire which consumed about 5000 acres and came within 40 yards to he and his wife Nancy's home of 25 years above Jamestown. "It was only a matter of time before this brush went up in flames," Farmer said, "You've got to expect this after watching the fuels build up after so long. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch
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Nolan Farmer(CQ), of Jamestown, holds his hand over a hot spot in a scorched stand of trees near his home which was threatened by the Overland Fire which consumed about 5000 acres and came within 40 yards to he and his wife Nancy's home of 25 years above Jamestown. "It was only a matter of time before this brush went up in flames," Farmer said, "You've got to expect this after watching the fuels build up after so long. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch
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photo by Cliff Grassmick
'The "Welcome Home. We Got Coffee" sign outside the Jamestown Mercantile Co. Cafe on Thursday.
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This home on County Road 87J was one of the victims of Wednesday's Overland Fire outside of Jamestown. The cold, wet weather helped knock the fire down on Thursday.
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Mark and Sharon Mihalic(CQ), of Jamestown, eye the remains of their hand-built home which was destroyed by the Overland Fire which consumed about 5000 acres and tore through their property destroying their gothic-style log home, three vehicles, and a shed with solar power batteries and supplies. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch
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Mark and Sharon Mihalic(CQ), of Jamestown, walk around the remains of their hand-built home which was destroyed by the Overland Fire which consumed about 5000 acres and tore through their property destroying their gothic-style log home, three vehicles, and a shed with solar power batteries and supplies. Jamestown residents were allowed back into their homes Thursday morning after being evacuated Wednesday.
photo taken OCT 30, 2003 by jon hatch