2 remain missing after the Colorado fire. Survivors are counting their blessings
The missing persons toll has dropped after one person was found alive. Residents who escaped the flames that destroyed some 1,000 homes returned to sort through what was left.
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire. Meanwhile, people who barely escaped the flames sorted through what was left after the blaze.
The flames ripped through at least 9.4 square miles and left nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings destroyed in suburbs between Denver and Boulder. It came unusually late in the year following an extremely dry fall and amid a winter nearly devoid of snow. Experts say those
