Tag: fires
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Crime Recap: 306 arrested last week in El Paso County
Colorado Springs police saw a homicide, a juvenile death in a crash and several fires last week, with law enforcement making a total of 306 arrests in El Paso County. From April 19 to April 25, the Colorado Springs Police Department posted 10 blotter entries to its database of arrests approved for public release. Here is…
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The raw realities of fighting fires in rural areas| Rachel Gabel
Fires on the Plains are not the roaring, mosaic burns in the mountains that leap across canyons and leave the skeletons of trees behind as monuments of destruction. In this country, the first gust of wind hits like a left hook and gets the attention of everyone. The weatherman smiles and talks about precipitation chances…
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1 injured after fire engulfs Colorado Springs mobile home
A person is in the hospital with minor injuries after a fire broke out at a mobile home near Old Colorado City early Thursday morning. The blaze started just after 7 a.m. at 1339 Arch Street and engulfed the home then spread to another one before firefighters could knock it down, the Colorado Springs Fire…
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Colorado Springs school to seek approval for 7-foot fence amid problems with vagrants
A “significant increase” in criminal activity largely by transients is forcing one Colorado Springs pre-kindergarten-12 campus to take what it’s calling expensive action. A rise in vandalism, theft of items from storage sheds, open drug use and school buses being broken into and trashed with garbage, spent needles, liquor bottles and cigarette butts prompted Colorado…
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WATCH: Residents narrowly escape fire near Boulder, another blazes in Lyons
Firefighters battled blazes across parts of Northern Colorado on Thursday, getting a better grip on both the Lake Shore and Stone Canyon fires.
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Prescribed burns planned at Fort Carson and Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site
Crews will be lighting prescribed fires on Fort Carson training areas and the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site northeast of Trinidad starting this week through April 15. The intermittent prescribed burns are meant to reduce heavy vegetation that can fuel wildfires, a news release stated. The Directorates of Emergency Services and Public Works Conservation Branch will…
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Prescribed burns planned at Fort Carson and Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Crews will be lighting prescribed fires on Fort Carson training areas and the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site northeast of Trinidad starting this week through April 15. The intermittent prescribed burns are meant to reduce heavy vegetation that can fuel wildfires, a news release stated. The…
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Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared to have role in igniting largest wildfire in Texas history
The utility provider Xcel Energy says its facilities appeared to have played a role in igniting a massive wildfire in the Texas Panhandle that grew to the largest blaze in state history
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Mexico City drought causes rainwater catchment basin to catch fire and burn for a day
Mexico City’s drought and water shortage is so bad that one of the capital’s rainwater catchment basins has caught fire, scorching 75 acres of dried-up vegetation
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Explosive fire at site used by vape suppliers kills 1 outside Detroit, sends debris a mile away
Authorities say a fire that destroyed a building which housed suppliers for the vaping industry caused multiple explosions that killed one person and injured a firefighter as the blasts rocked suburban Detroit, sending gas cannisters and debris shooting into the air