For the first time since the fire that burned down the main shopping area in Nederland, resident Bruce Vallender of Rollinsville was able to do his laundry.

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"The day of the fire I drove over in the morning not knowing the fire was going on, to go to the laundromat in the shopping center, and it was burned to the ground," Vallender explained to CBS Colorado.

Without the laundromat, many people in Nederland and the surrounding mountain communities have had to make quite a trip to wash their clothes.

"I'd have to go down to either Boulder or Golden, which is a 50-mile round trip," Vallender said.

But that drive has been eliminated thanks to Colorado Baptist Disaster Relief. On Tuesday, it set up its mobile laundry trailer near the Nederland Fire Department. That way residents and

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