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Longtime Routt County resident Deo Hobbs was outside feeding her three horses at her 40-acre home site northwest of Hayden late Tuesday afternoon when a “huge boom sounded, and her horses scattered.”

As one person was on the phone trying to explain to the dispatch where lightning started a fire Tuesday afternoon, 12-year-old Ryder, in a very relaxed manner, grabbed a shovel and walked over and started pounding the fire out. Ryder’s family lost their home in October during the Cameron Peak Fire.

Longtime Routt County resident Deo Hobbs was outside feeding her three horses at her 40-acre home site northwest of Hayden late Tuesday afternoon when a “huge boom sounded, and her horses scattered.”