Fire on the Mountain
Nebraska National Guard crewmembers of Company C 2nd-135th General Support Aviation Battalion dump water from a Bambi bucket onto flames of the High Park fire west of Fort Collins, Colorado in this June 18, 2012 handout photo. The blaze, which started on June 9, was caused by a lightning strike, has torched over 65,000 acres to date. Eight more homes were lost in a Colorado wildfire that is the state's most destructive on record and which continued to rage dangerously close to a residential subdivision as winds stoked the flames, fire officials said June 19.
