Things lost are found in photo salvage work

FORT COLLINS – Diana McKinney carefully cuts open a plastic sleeve holding a sopping wet family photo.

The photo was one of hundreds from several albums that succumbed to the flood in a Longmont family’s basement.

But just a week after flooding wracked Northern Colorado, the photos were being preserved by McKinney, a volunteer at Leave a Legacy in Fort Collins.

After the flooding, “I thought, what can I do to help,” McKinney said. “Homes are replaceable. Family photos are not.”

McKinney and other volunteers along the Front Range have been busy preserving everything from wedding to graduation photos and digital video tapes tainted…