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<br />fi H <br /> <br />Sun" July 14, 1996 Rocky Mountain News <br />.', l-I:,!"'_',.:n {;<'C)--. <br /> <br />Rampaging creek kills 2 <br /> <br />Friday-night flash flood turns <br />Buffalo Creek into torrent, <br />washing out roads, property <br /> <br />..~_' _._~:c.,:-",... <br /> <br />tain community set the stage for a flash <br />flood Friday tI1at killed two men and dam- <br />,aged several buildings, ' <br />"I call it hell or high water - it's either <br />burning or flooding," Jefferson COlillty <br />sheriff' sspokesman Jim Parr said. <br />A Friday~night storm dropped heavy <br />rains in the area 35 miles southwest of <br />Denver, forciJlg the nOtth fork of the <br />South Platte River at leas.t 15 feet over its <br />~---- <br /> <br />banks, <br />"There would have been some floodmg <br />anyway because the rain was so heavy," <br />U,S, Forest Service spokeswoman PaJ11 <br />DeVore said. HBut it was even worse he- <br />cause there's no vegetation on the hill- <br />sides to keep the water back." <br />The Natjonal Weather Service foreelst <br /> <br />By Michael O'Keeffe and Bm Scanlon <br />Rocky MltUIltainNews SiajfWriter.; <br /> <br />BUFFAlO CREEK - The May forest fire <br />that ravaged 12,000 acres near this moUll- <br /> <br />See flOOD on 6A <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />( <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />-...-- ~-_..-._-:.._,._.-- <br />