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Wed June 20, 2012
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Wildfires

Slideshow: Pictures From Inside The High Park Fire

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Credit Grace Hood / KUNC
The remains of a single home scorched by the High Park Fire along Colorado Road 29C.
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This home across from Picnic Rock along Highway 14 was completely leveled by the fire.
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Patches of black and even grey earth appear along Highway 14. A few blades of grass survived the Hgih Park Fire.
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This pit toilet, at a pull off along Highway 14, was completely leveled by the fire. Nearby green grass is still growing inbetween the panes of cement around the outhouse.
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While the pit toilet didn’t make it, a large wooden sign did.
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Gateway Natural Area was also untouched by the fire, the site of the city’s old water filtration plant.

The High Park Fire has consumed an estimated at 68,200 acres as of Wednesday evening. Following our previous picture collection from Buckhorn Mtn., Grace Hood went inside the High Park Fire this afternoon with the media tour and brought back these pictures.

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