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Stunned residents surveyed the smoldering ruins of their homes Wednesday after a fast-moving wildfire swept through parts of this farm town on Colorado's eastern plains, killing two volunteer firefighters, scorching grassland and forcing hundreds of people to flee.
That 14-square-mile fire was fully contained Wednesday. But a 15-square-mile blaze raged nearly out of control on a remote part of the Army's Fort Carson after killing a firefighting pilot. And in the mountains of western Colorado, a third fire burned about 1½ square miles, damaged two buildings and slightly injured a fisherman.
Leading into Ordway, utility poles were destroyed, power lines and electrical transformers dangled precariously, and grain storage facilities were blackened. 
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