Chapter 97
It was mid-morning before Marshal Owens could get a good head count from his subordinates. By some miracle, there were no fatalities but many were injured. The one doctor and three nurses they had on site were reinforced by a team of doctors and nurses from the Colorado State Disaster Preparedness Center in Denver and they did their best to treat the myriad of burns and miscellaneous injuries. One man had tried to go back inside a burning tent to retrieve his wallet. The tent collapsed over his head and he'd suffered third degree burns over forty percent of his body. His injuries were the worst but there were others nearly as bad. The doctor put all the burn victims in the shallow creek with companions to make sure they didn't float downstream. Their prognoses were later found to be sur
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