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<p>Automatic rifle fire quashed the holiday mood at the Hazel Lake Estates Volunteer Fire Department's Annual picnic and fund raiser leaving three dead and numerous wounded - including the community's developer.</p><p><br></p><p>C.W. Blankenship of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was about to begin the fundraising raffle when pandemonium broke out plunging him immediately into the hunt for the attackers. What follows is a long search for motives and identities punctuated by more gunfire.</p>