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Woman Fleeing Colorado Wildfire Starts One in Idaho

Krista McCann is fine after car accident

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 13, 2012 4:04 PM CDT

(Newser) – Bad day? Tell it to 19-year-old Krista McCann. She was feeling a little edgy about the wildfire still smoldering near her place in Colorado Springs and decided to pack up the car and head to her dad's home in Oregon. On the way, she clipped another car, went off the interstate, and set off a 2,000-acre blaze in Idaho, reports KTVB7. On the bright side, she and the other driver are fine, and the Idaho fire is out.

"I know I got out and I saw that the field was on fire and at that point I was just ... I was pretty devastated," she says. "I didn't want to do anything like that."

A helicopter drops water on Waldo Canyon wildfire west of Colorado Springs on June 29.
A helicopter drops water on Waldo Canyon wildfire west of Colorado Springs on June 29.   (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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KerouacDon
Jul 14, 2012 5:14 PM CDT
Glad no one was hurt, ergo, let us laugh about it: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=QKcSZfY1sf4
HANKHILL
Jul 14, 2012 10:21 AM CDT
glad they are ok! yike bad day x9999999999!
ladyrosedeky
Jul 14, 2012 1:18 AM CDT
Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning.
 

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