16 Amazing And Disturbing Photos Of The Colorado Wildfires

Colorado is being ravaged by six wildfires in the worst outbreak since 2002.

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A giant plume of smoke rises from the Waldo Canyon fire west of Colorado Springs.

Image by Rick Wilking / Reuters

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Image by JEREMY PAPASSO / AP

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Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdoc / AP

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Image by RICK WILKING / Reuters

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Image by Jess Geffre / AP

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Image by Darrell Spangler / AP

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Image by Darrell Spangler / AP

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Image by Galon Wampler / AP

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A deer jumps through a fence along Highway 24 to escape wildfires burning nearby in Cascade, Colorado.

Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock / AP

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Animals from evacuated areas of Colorado Springs, Colorado are housed at the local Humane Society on Sunday, June 24, 2012, as a wildfire continues to burn nearby. The fire erupted and grew out of control to more than 3 square miles early Sunday, prompting the evacuation of more than 11,000 residents and an unknown number of tourists.

Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette/ Jerilee Bennett / AP

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Karen Bodine loads alfalfa as her husband, Greg Bodine, and her father, Duane Schormann, load her father’s animals into a trailer as a wildfire burns near their home in Cascade, Colorado.

Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock / AP

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Christina Morris watches in horror as the wildfire burns nearby her home in Colorado Springs. Morris began to prepare in the event she and her family would need to evacuate.

Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett / AP

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Image by Rick Wilking / Reuters

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Image by Bryan Oller / AP

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Image by The Colorado Springs Gazette, Susannah Kay / AP