Tag: black forest fire
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Colorado weather a ‘magnitude worse’ than historic Waldo, Black Forest fire seasons, official says
Colorado’s blistering, dry and breezy conditions have fire officials on edge as the state braces for a wildfire season forecast to be worse than during the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012. Officials warn that wildfires are becoming more frequent, more destructive and larger. “We are not looking good for fire this year,” Colorado Springs Fire…
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Bob Robson remembered as skilled machinist, family man, Utilities shop leader
“Bob had a heart of gold but he was a driver. In a nice way, he would drive you to do your best. Iron sharpens iron and the best make you better.” That was how former fire team chief Michael Myers described Bob Robson on Wednesday. Robson, 64, spent the past 13 years working for…
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Black Forest fire: 5 years later, residents warily eye looming danger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Frances Burke’s children were young, one of them carved “I love Mom” into the hearth of her wood-burning fireplace. Thirty-some years ago, her kids all denied chiseling the words into the stone. Now, they all take credit. The message was a permanent fixture in…
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Black Forest fire: 5 years later, residents warily eye looming danger
When Frances Burke’s children were young, one of them carved “I love Mom” into the hearth of her wood-burning fireplace. Thirty-some years ago, her kids all denied chiseling the words into the stone. Now, they all take credit. The message was a permanent fixture in the Burke home, which was tucked in a dense stand…
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Community picnic to mark five years since the Black Forest fire
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A community picnic on Sunday will give residents a chance to gather to remember the massive blaze that devastated Black Forest five years ago. The picnic will be from 1:30 – 4 p.m. at Black Forest Regional Park, according to a news release from El…
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Community picnic to mark five years since the Black Forest fire
A community picnic on Sunday will give residents a chance to gather to remember the massive blaze that devastated Black Forest five years ago. The picnic will be from 1:30 – 4 p.m. at Black Forest Regional Park, according to a news release from El Paso County. June 11 will mark five years since the…
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Hank Cramer concert will benefit Black Forest Together recovery efforts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than two years after the Black Forest Fire raged through the community north of Colorado Springs, Black Forest Together continues to clear dead, burned out trees from scorched land and do flood mitigation on…
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Hank Cramer concert will benefit Black Forest Together recovery efforts
More than two years after the Black Forest Fire raged through the community north of Colorado Springs, Black Forest Together continues to clear dead, burned out trees from scorched land and do flood mitigation on the still unstable landscape. All that work costs money. And the nonprofit organization will hold its “first official fundraiser,” spokeswoman…
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Analysis: Tracking the money spent on disaster recovery in the Pikes Peak region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County continues to receive millions of federal, state and private funds targeted at disaster recovery. More than $56 million came into the county to help fund recoveries from the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire,…
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Analysis: Tracking the money spent on disaster recovery in the Pikes Peak region
El Paso County continues to receive millions of federal, state and private funds targeted at disaster recovery. More than $56 million came into the county to help fund recoveries from the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, the 2013 Black Forest fire and the September 2013 floods – all of which were declared federal disasters. The money…