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A helicopter takes off to combat wildfires as they roll through housing subdivisions in the mountains north and west of Colorado Springs, Colo., near the U.S. Air Force Academy, background, on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. The fire has destroyed dozens of houses and burned about 10 acres of the academy’s 28-square-mile campus. The fire doubled in size overnight to about 24 square miles and forced mandatory evacuations for more than 32,000 residents, including 2,200 on the south part of the academy c