Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Hundreds of homes like this one were destroyed in the East Troublesome fire last year. All that’s left of many is the stone chimney. Dec. 31, 2021. When the East Troublesome fire hurtled towards Matthew Reed-Tolonen’s Grand Lake home last October, he made sure to lock up his family’s fireproof safes before they evacuated. “That was like the marriage license, birth certificates, all that kind of stuff,” Reed-Tolonen said. “I thought I was good. I was like, ‘All right, it's closed.’ And this is an expensive safe, we're good. It didn’t do anything, just ash.”