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Across the West, utilities are increasingly cutting off power during wind storms to keep downed and damaged power lines from starting wildfires. When this happened in April near Boulder, Colorado, one nursing home had just 75 minutes to prepare for an outage that lasted 28 hours.

As Louisville recovers from the disastrous Marshall Fire, they have had to do so without the Avista Adventist Hospital, which was closed due to smoke damage. With the hospital slated to reopen next Tuesday, KUNC's Colorado Edition spoke with Kaiser Health °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ reporter Kate Ruder, who covered the closure and its impact.