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athryn Touran’s life has been one big blur since the High Park fire broke out on June 9. Touran, a veterinarian at Garden Valley Veterinary Hospital in Windsor, found out two days after the fire started that the home she shared with her husband, Pedro Boscan, in the Davis Ranch area off Rist Canyon burned to the ground. Touran’s commute to Windsor is an hour from the mountains west of Fort Collins. Since the fire, she switched from her vet scrubs into 45 pounds of firefighting gear to help fight the fire in 100-degree heat as a volunteer firefighter for the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. Continued on A5: Veterinarian
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THE HIGH PARK FIRE burns in Poudre Canyon, as seen from Glacier View Meadows, west of Fort Collins on June 12.
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TOP: KATHRYN TOURAN, 30, holds two of her animals she saved before she and her husband lost their Rist Canyon home
to the High Park fire at the Garden Valley Veterinary Hospital in Windsor on Wednesday afternoon. Touran also is a volunteer firefighter for Rist Canyon save most of her animals, some important documents and photo albums. Despite the loss, she said that her and her husband plan to rebuild.
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a known gang member. Greeley police spokeswoman Sgt. Susan West said Perales, 26, was an acquaintance of the woman he held hostage for about three hours in a basement apartment at 1804 30th St. Police and SWAT team members stormed the
apartment Friday evening, killing Perales and rescuing the woman unharmed. Police did not release the name of the woman. Because of the gang connections to the case, releasing the woman’s name may put her in further danger, West said.
The standoff began about 3:30 p.m., when Perales saw police approaching the apartment to arrest him on an outstanding warrant. Perales
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