Colorado Springs

• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Melted bowling balls in the front yard were among the strange sights that met C.J. Moore upon her return Sunday to her two-story home, now reduced to ashes by the worst wildfire in Colorado history.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Residents began returning to charred areas of Colorado Springs on Sunday after the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and left the landscape a blackened wasteland.
(msnbc.com)
• EL PASO COUNTY - Fire officials said Sunday the 17,827-acre Waldo Canyon Fire remains 55 percent contained. Sunday Waldo Canyon Fire officials said 3,000 people in the Mountain Shadows subdivision will remain on mandatory evacuation status.
(9News)
• a town ravaged in recent weeks by wildfires, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. A 3-year-old passenger in the motor home also died, the Wyoming Highway Patrol said.
(Abc Local Web)
• All around her, the sky glowed orange from the towering flames that had roared down the mountain and into western subdivisions of Colorado Springs. Oh my God, she sobbed. We gotta get out of here. She knew her neighborhood would never be the same.
(KTBS)
• In the late 1950s, a small tourist attraction near Colorado Springs fed 10,000 international Girl Scouts over a week's time. One of the activities of the Girl Scout International Round-Up was an evening at the Flying W. I was one of those teenage Girl Scouts.
(Colorado Springs Gazette)
• The Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado is more than just a tragedy unfolding on television. Colorado Springs is the home of the United States Olympic Committee as well as the governing bodies of 22 other amateur sports including U.
(Examiner)
• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Melted bowling balls in the front yard were among the strange sights that met C.J. Moore upon her return Sunday to her two-story home, now reduced to ashes by the worst wildfire in Colorado history.
(Washington Times)
• Some 350 houses were destroyed in Colorado Springs. Today, residents of those homes are returning to assess the damage. They may not find much more than chunks of rubble. Colorado Public Radios Megan Verlee reports on what it means to start over.
(NPR News)