The Waldo Canyon fire could cost the city of Colorado Springs up to $4 million in overtime.

In addition to overtime, operating costs, such as fuel, food and supplies, will be about $500,000, Neumann said.

The city says firefighters will be on overtime for several more days.

“While the local Waldo Canyon firefighting efforts have concluded, we expect nearly all Fire Department staff to be in an overtime status until the Fire Department’s Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) time period concludes in mid-July, so there will be continuing cost impacts,” Chief of Staff Laura Neumann said in an email.

Colorado Springs Utilities estimates their price tag for fighting and repairing the fire damage will be $2.7 million.

Labor and equipment costs accounted for $1.5 million and repairing infrastructure damage cost $1 million, Colorado Springs Utilities said.

The 39 million gallons of water used in the firefight contributed $200,000.

This was the price of saving homes and returning utilities to impacted neighborhoods.

At the height of the restoration effort, from July 2 to July 5, 100 people from Springs Utilities and Xcel Energy worked more than 12 hours a day.

“They were proud to be out there helping and getting customers back to their homes,” said Eric Isaacson, a Utilities spokesman.

The work included repairing 12 miles of natural gas line to restore service to 4,000 customers and visiting individual homes to relight pilot lights within eight days.

Crews also replaced lines and poles on the power line between Green Mountain Falls and the Air Force Academy, at a cost of $570,000.

In Mountain Shadows, crews replaced electric transformers and natural gas equipment, which also added to costs.

Utilities is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and other federal agencies to be reimbursed for the majority of costs.

The city government will be filing for reimbursement of “eligible costs” with FEMA, too, Neumann said.

“We are just beginning our work with FEMA representatives to determine what costs are eligible,” she said, adding that 75 percent of eligible costs will be reimbursed by FEMA.

Crews from FEMA were in the field on Monday to help crews from Utilities learn to report costs that can be reimbursed.

The work is not complete because there are still scattered homes without natural gas because the owners were not at home when crews came to restore service.

To get service restored call 448-4800.