Nearly 150 burned cars now fill Jason Rol’s lot at his car shop, Rol Race Motorsports, north of Denver. After a grass fire on Wednesday, his Thornton business estimates a total of nearly $1 million in damages across all his lots.
When flames first appeared, Rol tried to use a garden hose, but the fire grew too fast for him to keep up.
“All I could think was ‘get water.’ Even though it was by the time I had done anything, it spread so much that there was nothing that the water was going to do,” he said. “It looks like a bomb went off in here. And that’s what many people who have stopped by said — that it looks like a movie set.”…