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LOVELAND , Colo. — The return home is devastating for families on Storm Mountain and Cedar Park, as they begin getting their first glimpses into the destruction and damage left by the Alexander Mountain Fire . 'It was their things and their life that is, you know, now, nothing but ash. It is hard,' said Jerry Percell, a volunteer with Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief . 'You've seen the pictures.
'We go in with the people, help them start to get a grasp, because they are totally disoriented, as you would be when all that you've known is just a pile of ash with some metal sticking out of it,' Percell said. Their biggest hope is they find items with the most sentimental value. 'People think they'll find things,' Percell said. 'A lot of times we do find, occasionally, jewelry, you know, wedding rings or something.
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