Call NumberRMN-042-4429CreatorBarry GutierrezDate2002-07-26SummaryThis storyboard version of the Pulitzer photo was prepared by the Rocky Mountain News photographic editors for submission as an entry for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with the caption: "As Colorado burns in the summer of 2002, flames from a new fire loom menacingly behind a mountain home near Durango. The Valley Fire broke out less than a mile west of the fiercely burning Missionary Ridge Fire in the Animas River Valley near southwest Colorado's major north-south highway."SubjectValley Fire (Colo.)Forest firesColorado on FireGeographic AreaDurango (Colo.)CollectionRocky Mountain News Pulitzer PrizesLanguageeng
Barry Gutierrez, Fire looms menacingly behind a mountain home near Durango. (2002-07-26). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 12/04/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/682612
