The Waldo Canyon fire burns an entire neighborhood near the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 26, 2012. Colorado endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post/Associated Press)
A small kitten is injured after a blaze fueled by strong winds swept through a neighborhood in Mountain Home, Idaho on June 19, 2012. (Chris Butler/The Idaho Statesman/Associated Press
Todd Clites, of the PatRick fire crew in Boise, douses his head with water at the High Park Fire Incident Command Post at the National Guard Armory in Fort Collins, Colo. on June 19, 2012. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post/Associated Press)
An area lies scorched by wildfire near Mt. Pleasant, Utah on June 25, 2012. (Scott G. Winterton/The Deseret News/Associated Press)
A helicopter drops water on the Waldo Canyon fire burning behind the U.S. Air Force Academy west of Colorado Springs on June 27, 2012. The fire doubled in size overnight. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Helena, Mont. residents move their horses on June 26, 2012 after evacuations were ordered. The nervous horses had to be pushed often to keep them going. (Eliza Wiley/Independent Record/Associated Press)
A deer jumps through a fence along U.S. Highway 24 near Manitou Springs, Colo., as a wildfire burns near Cascade, Colo. on June 24, 2012. The fire prompted the evacuation of more than 11,000 residents and an unknown number of tourists. (Christian Murdock/The Colorado Springs Gazette/Associated Press)
Tammy Lance of Payson, Utah cries on June 25, 2012 after finding kittens alive under a burned-out truck. (Lynn DeBruin/Associated Press
Smoke from the High Park Fire fills the sky near Laporte, Colo. on June 10, 2012. (Marc Piscotty/Reuters
A wildfire burns between Lake Isabella and Wofford Heights, Calif. on June 19, 2012. (Casey Christie/The Bakersfield Californian/Associated Press)
Fire crews battle a blaze near homes in an evacuation area on June 11, 2012 near Fort Collins, Colo. The fire grew to more than 31 square miles within about a day after being reported, and smoke has drifted as far away as central Nebraska, western Kansas and Texas. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Associated Press)
A large area of forest lies burned in the Gila National Forest on June 15, 2012. The Whitewater-Baldy fire, a blaze that has charred more than 453 square miles of the forest and its famed Gila Wilderness, is the largest in the state's history. (KC Shedden/U.S. Forest Service/Associated Press
A fire crew works the Little Bear Fire in the Lincoln National Forest near Ruidoso, New Mexico on June 14, 2012. (Kari Greer/US Forest Service/Handout/Reuters
A firefighter works at a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo. on June 23, 2012. (Darrell Spangler/Associated Press)
Waldo Canyon Fire evacuees Tim and Amanda Hughes play games in the gymnasium at Cheyenne Mountain High School evacuation center in Colorado Springs on June 25, 2012. (Bryan Oller/Associated Press)
Helicopters battle the Wood Hollow Fire north of Fairview, Utah on June 26, 2012. (George Frey/Reuters
Smoke from the Waldo Canyon fire engulfs the I-25 north of Colorado Springs on June 26, 2012. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
Volunteers and firefighters from the Dean Creek Fire Department work to save a home south of Roundup, Mont. on June 26, 2012. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette/Associated Press)
People head south on Highway 87 away from the 18,700-acre Dahl fire burning south of Roundup, Mont. Hundreds of families were forced from their homes, and at least 60 homes burned. (Carmen Daye Irish/Billings Gazette/Associated Press)
Tayor Salamon, 11, holds his dog in the back seat of the car as his family rushes to leave their home in Colorado Springs on June 26, 2012. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Associated Press)
The Fontenelle Fire burns in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. (U.S. Forest Service/Associated Press
Deer sit in the backyard of a deserted Holland Park home after the area was evacuated as the Waldo Canyon Fire continued to burn on June 27, 2012 in Colorado Springs. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette/Associated Press
A helicopter picks up 2,600 gallons of water from an irrigation pond on June 27, 2012 to help fight the Wood Hollow Fire in central Utah. (Lynn DeBruin/Associated Press
A member of the Rock Creek Rural Fire Protection District fights a fire near the Hidden Lakes subdivision on June 27, 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho. (Ashley Smith/Times-News/Associated Press)
A member of the Bighorn Initial Attack crew of the Crow reservation in Montana checks for hotspots in the aftermath of the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs on June 29, 2012. (Rick Wilking/Reuters
Destroyed homes sit beside a home left untouched by fire in a neighborhood burned by the Waldo Canyon fire on June 30, 2012 in Colorado Springs. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Smoke billows at sunrise from part of the Waldo Canyon fire on June 30, 2012 in Colorado Springs. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Immanuel Mgana holds his daughter Grace Mgana, 2, as he surveys what is left of their home on July 1, 2012 in the Mountain Shadows subdivision of Colorado Springs. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post/Associated Press
auretta Anzalone, 80, and Cortney Lee, her great niece, hold a kettle found in the ashes of her home on July 1, 2012 in the Mountain Shadows subdivision of Colorado Springs. (Heather Rousseau/The Denver Post/Associated Press
Local residents Lindsay Hetzel and Nathan Birdseye sit on a cliff overlooking the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs on June 30, 2012. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
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