Laura Pritchett: Living with evacuation, smoke, helicopters, fire

I live on a county road near the evacuation perimeter of what is now Colorado’s largest wildfire. Just a few days ago, the sheriff’s deputy was outside, his lights flashing red-blue-red, giving my house a strobe light effect. He was directing traffic as people fled the mountain with trailers filled with cattle and horses and goats and belongings.The wind was roaring, first one direction and then another, which is why this fire blew up again. The Cameron Peak Fire has been burning for