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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif"'>With what’s
going on now with the dire weather some are experiencing in the USA, it seems
timely to send this on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>I am sending photos
and comments on the fire near Colorado Springs from a friend who got
the photos from another friend. I've removed their emails and
names. The photos are frightening. We flew into Denver
today near Fort Collins and that fire, which is not in the photos
below, can be seen from the air, and smoke hangs in the air there and in
Denver. Let's all hope for rain for Colorado asap and that these fires are
under control soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"'>E-mail received:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span lang=FO
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D'>A friend of ours sent
these to us. I would guess that they were shot on Tuesday night when all hell
broke loose on the foothills in Colorado Springs. There is no accurate count
yet but it's estimated that there were over 300 homes that were lost and when you
review the pictures, you'll see why. The forest is just like gasoline. Nothing
can stop the monster, although winds have slowed today and the temperatures are
little cooler. The danger today seems to be in the northwest quadrant of the
fire which is burning towards Woodland Park, a mountain community. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=FO style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span lang=FO
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1F497D'>Things have gotten a
bit better since these were taken, but you can see the extent of damage in just
this one fire. We have close to 8 like this burning now. They think some were
started by arsonists. This one they think was a lightening strike, as most have
been.</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'>Waldo Canyon Fire (Colorado Springs).  That's the Air
Force Academy in the foreground.  (It's evacuated now.  32,000 people
in the area have been evacuated.)  Several consecutive days of 105-degree
heat, low humidity and high winds.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
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font-family:Arial'>And none of these photos are of the 90,000-acre High Park
Fire near Fort Collins or any other dozen other major fires in our state.
 Pray for everyone who's affected by them.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
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