Colorado: Residents return following devastating fire.

Residents of Boulder County in Colorado have returned to scenes of devastation after snowfall helped extinguish the last of a raging wildfire.

The fire swept through 6,000 acres in just a few hours, destroying hundreds of homes.

One local resident said some families in the area that “lost everything” and it was a “Christmas miracle” that nobody was killed.

Tens of thousands of people fled as the flames engulfed the area.