Rain finally helped cool the wildfires that burned in Coloradofor nearly two weeks, but the threat of more fires throughout theUnited States persists as dry conditions have created plenty offuel for wildfires, according to Lamont Norman, global productmanager, Pitney Bowes Software.

Norman saw first hand the damage caused by the Colorado wildfires from his home inBoulder.

"The thing that drove these fires and made things more dramaticis the fact that the weather was so dry and so hot," he says. "Thehumidity was in the single digits and then you had lightningstrikes in the area."

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