Flames of 15 to 20 feet were commonplace, with some reaching 300 feet, he said.

CNN: 'Very large, unpredictable' Colorado fire grows

Schormann told CNN that flames came to within 20 feet of their home but were beaten back.

CNN: Crews go on offensive against growing Colorado wildfire

Twenty miles away in the showroom at Philips Color Kinetics a "screen" made of 50 vertical tubes (each 2 inches wide and 4 feet tall and composed of 760 individual diodes) of programmable LEDs projects a parrot moving in a forest, then flames flickering in a fireplace.

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