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I happen to be visiting my sister's family in Louisville, CO and the whole area is on fire. We were able to evacuate on time to safety. This is the craziest fire ever. We came yesterday evening from Telluride, CO and this morning were having a good time downtown Louisville taking my 32 months old nephew for a ride on a horse carriage. Around noon we noticed a dark smoke cloud near by that looked like a localized fire. We did not pay much attention to it and we went back to my sister's house around 1pm. By 2pm smoke was all over the place and police was going around the neighborhood asking to evacuate. We packed in 30 minutes and it took us 2 hours to make it to the safety (local roads got quickly clogged). Now (around midnight local time) the fire is about 200-300 yards from my sisters house (our estimate by monitoring security cameras at my sister's house). A town of Superior (next to Louisville) is almost completely gone. Multiple neighborhood in Louisville and South Boulder are gone. Over 600 houses burned so far. Luckily, there are no reports of any casualties, and that is a huge relief. This looks like an apocalypse. It is scary how fast fire was moving due to up to 100 miles/hours winds. Now the winds calmed down to about 10-20 miles/hour and fire departments started working on extinguishing (or at least containing) fires until tomorrow morning. We are supposed to have a snow storm tomorrow morning (sent from heaven) and hopefully that will put fires down.