Colorado State Patrol officer Jessie Bartunek, left, speaks to a South Fork, Colo., resident who did not give his name at a checkpoint Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the outskirts of South Fork. Fire crews with tankers and hoses at the ready stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Smoke fills the sky as dawn breaks over a mountain range near South Fork, Colo Saturday, June 22, 2013. Fire crews with tankers and hoses stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Firefighters from the San Juan Hotshots based in Durango, Colo, clear brush from around structures Saturday, June 22, 2013, in South Fork, Colo. Fire crews with tankers and hoses stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Firefighters from the San Juan Hotshots based in Durango, Colo, clear brush from around structures Saturday, June 22, 2013, in South Fork, Colo. Fire crews with tankers and hoses at the ready stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Firefighter Cole Ingram, of the San Juan Hotshots based in Durango, Colo, walks with a chainsaw as his crew clears brush from around structures Saturday, June 22, 2013, in South Fork, Colo. Fire crews with tankers and hoses stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Breached the Ridge - afternoon of June 26. Photo taken from Oak Hills Drive overlook. (Submitted by Bill Stanley)
Decided, Time to Evacuate - afternoon of June 26. Photo taken from Oak Hills Drive overlook. (Submitted by Bill Stanley)
Evac Traffic - afternoon of June 26. Photo taken along Allegheny Drive. (Submitted by Bill Stanley)
Destruction - July 1. Photo taken from Oak Hills Drive Overlook. (Submitted by Bill Stanley)
A Thank You - July 1. Photo taken on 31st Street. (Submitted by Bill Stanley)
Photo taken minutes before Peregrine's mandatory evacuation order. (Submitted by Tim Tierney)
View from Briargate neighborhood from our safe location. (Submitted by Tim Tierney)
My wife (7mos pregnant at the time) 2-year old daughter, and myself, were Colorado Springs residents for two days, living with my wife's parents in Peregrine...it was quite an exciting/stressful welcome, to say the least...
A few days later, The Gazette featured my daughter and I on the front page (photo attached) Like I said, it was quite the first week in Colorado Springs :-) (Submitted by Tim Tierney)
On June 23, 2012 I was hiking uphill on FS Trail #652 which runs from Barr Camp to just above Glen Cove. I came out of the trees a few minutes after one and that's when I first saw the plume and took this picture. (Submitted by Andy Lyon)
This picture was taken near the trailhead and the last from the Pikes Peak Highway. By around 3 p.m., when I reached Highway 24, the fire was visible on the ridge above Cascade. (Submitted by Andy Lyon)
I had lived on Linger Way in Mountain Shadows for 19 years. Of the nineteen homes on our street, fifteen of them were a complete loss. The pictures are the before and after of my garden. A garden that I loved spending time in and put many, many hours of labor into it, mostly correcting my own mistakes.
You hear people say that it is just stuff, that it can be replaced. Yes, TVs, blenders, treadmills and the like can be replaced, but family heirlooms cannot be. Those first few days after the fire when I was coming to terms with our loss, I felt like someone that I loved had died, that was the intensity of my emotional pain.
Because my husband had grown up sailing on the east coast, he wanted to get back to that even before the fire. So about two months after the fire we relocated to the west coast of Florida so my husband could get back into boating. The move has not been easy for me, I left behind a ton of friends and those beautiful mountains. (Submitted by Sylvia Price)
I had lived on Linger Way in Mountain Shadows for 19 years. Of the nineteen homes on our street, fifteen of them were a complete loss. The pictures are the before and after of my garden. A garden that I loved spending time in and put many, many hours of labor into it, mostly correcting my own mistakes.
You hear people say that it is just stuff, that it can be replaced. Yes, TVs, blenders, treadmills and the like can be replaced, but family heirlooms cannot be. Those first few days after the fire when I was coming to terms with our loss, I felt like someone that I loved had died, that was the intensity of my emotional pain.
Because my husband had grown up sailing on the east coast, he wanted to get back to that even before the fire. So about two months after the fire we relocated to the west coast of Florida so my husband could get back into boating. The move has not been easy for me, I left behind a ton of friends and those beautiful mountains. (Submitted by Sylvia Price)
Us on our "doorstep". (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)
Friends helping us dig through ash. (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)
Ashes (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)
A friendly hug (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)
Our new house going up (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)
