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Wildfires tore through the West with terrifying speed, turning birthday parties into scenes of chaos as ash rained like snow and flames raced down mountainsides. Dayna Joynt risked everything to rescue kids and cars, even melting a tire on her van. Kyla Gaudiuso stared in disbelief at photos of her home’s ashes, still unable to accept its loss. Erin Carlson’s family business was evacuated by helicopter; their packing house, office, and cold storage vanished, leaving cherry trees’ fate uncertain. Anette Boulet fled just months after moving in, witnessing a “ridge of fire” in the dark. Greg Krauter saved his goats but returned to find burning stumps and a gas geyser where neighbors once lived. One blaze alone swelled to 155 square kilometers — and for Dawn Wertz from Alberta, it began with loonie-sized ash falling mid-party. Nature’s fury left nothing untouched, and no one unscathed.

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