Volunteers Hand Out Water After Colorado Wildfire

Officers burn off natural ground fuel in an evacuated neighborhood, prepping the area for the encroachment of the wildfire in the Black Forest area north of Colorado Springs, Colo., on June 12, 2013. Brennan Linsley/AP Photo

As investigators search for the cause of the Colorado wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes, residents still don’t have clean drinking water, among other essential utilities.

In the tight-knit suburb of Louisville, volunteers—many of whom do not have water themselves—carried packs of bottled water into residents’ cars at the Louisville public library.