How salvaged items from a Colorado wildfire can ease survivors' pain of loss

KUNC | By Leigh Paterson

Published June 23, 2022 at 5:08 AM EDT

Months after the Marshall Fire ripped through northern Colorado on Dec. 30, 2021, some evacuees are returning to sift through the debris and hunt for treasured possessions.

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