ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — Three years after two fires ripped through the Club Valencia Condominiums off Parker Road, Linda Jones still hasn’t been able to go home.

Jones, a certified nursing assistant who has owned her condo since 2019, said the anniversary of the first fire in November 2022 , feels less like a date on the calendar and more like an open wound.

“We’ve got 160 units shut down, people out of a home, people living on the streets, people in their cars,” Jones said. Linda Jones has been a homeowner at Club Valencia since 2019.

Jones was displaced after the first fire and never returned to live in her unit. Today, she’s renting a room with a family in Aurora while continuing to pay both her mortgage and homeowners association fees at Club Valencia.

“I’m working all the time

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