Their neighbors, also fleeing for their lives, watched as the flames ignited in a gully filled with bushes and dried grass, then leaped through the air onto the Cullens’ deck. 31, 2021, gets a flyover tour of Boulder County neighborhoods destroyed by wildfires the previous day, including Old Town Superior. Aboard a Colorado National Guard helicopter, Gov. He could see smoke rising in the direction of home. Evan abandoned his lunch plans after the wind blew so fiercely that his pickup truck, idling at a stop sign, rattled and shifted. By the time she got back in the vehicle, she could no longer see her house through smoke so thick it made her choke.Ĭhihoko followed the taillights of the car in front of her to find her way out of the neighborhood, dialing her husband at the same time he was rushing home to make sure they were OK. In a matter of seconds, Chihoko got her three children in her old Dodge minivan and ran back inside to grab her phone. She got no warning, no reverse-911 call - nothing but the smell of fire and a thick smoke that billowed up to her house on Cherokee Avenue, in the Sagamore neighborhood on the edge of Superior. But Chihoko Cullens’ phone was upstairs and she was downstairs with her children.
Evan Cullens had tried to warn his wife, texting and calling to tell her he had seen smoke in the distance as he headed to meet a friend for lunch.
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