LOVELAND, Colo. — Seth Knight is living in his Loveland welding shop since the Cameron Peak Fire destroyed his home on Crystal Mountain.
After his time in the military ended ten years ago, Knight moved to Crystal Mountain. With his own hands, he built his cabin from the ground up.
"It wasn’t much but it was paid for, it was my little slice of the woods," Knight said of his home.
As the Cameron Peak fire got closer, Knight packed up what he could, including some tools, but mostly items money can't buy.
"I was thankful I got a lot of my family heirlooms out. A lot of pictures, some books of the family, old firearms, my father service models," Knight said of what he could salvage.
When the fire had passed, one of Knights' neighbors took video of what his small mountain community looked like. Most of it is now ash.