Tag: fire
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Downtown Colorado Springs businesses displaced by fire ponder next steps after manager terminates leases
The property manager of a building in downtown Colorado Springs said he is terminating leases with business owners after an electrical fire inside the building Dec. 4. Slawek Pietraszek, managing director at New Vision Hotels, said Tuesday that he is releasing tenants from their leases in the Majestic Building, 3-15 E. Bijou St., which houses…
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Fallen Fire Fighters Remembrance Ceremony
Scenes from the 37th annual Fallen Fire Fighters Remembrance Ceremony, held in Memorial Park on Saturday, September 16. More than 4,000 people from across North America gathered to honor the 572 firefighters and first responders who lost their lives in 2021 and 2022.
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LIFE | Goats help Colorado Springs property owners with fire mitigation
Goat Mowers LLC in El Paso County will bring goats to your property to do fire mitigation. Goats are an ideal fire mitigators because they can get in places that equipment can’t, and they don’t reseed in their manure, unlike other ruminant animals such as cows, which do drop their seed. (Video by Skyler Ballard/…
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New body cam footage shows chaotic moments evacuating path of Marshall Fire
New body cam footage shows chaotic moments evacuating path of Marshall Fire
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New AI modeling improves wildfire forecasts, National Center for Atmospheric Research says
New AI driven modeling is improving scientists ability to predict wildfire paths, volatility and more, the National Center for Atmospheric Research says. The modeling program, known as WRF-Fire, now accounts for beetle-kill, more accurately predicting combustable plant matter.
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Tipping Point: Fire on the Colorado River watershed
Historic drought and low-runoff conditions have impacted the Colorado River Basin for several decades, robbing the area of moisture and priming the land for wildfires. In October of 2020, the East Troublesome spread through Grand County, devastating the drought-stricken terrain with a speed and ferocity no one in Colorado had seen before. As the fire grew,…
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VIDEO: Alturas Fire in El Paso County
A fire burning south of Colorado Springs near the new Amazon Distribution Center closed the airport and forced mandatory evacuations of nearby homes late Thursday afternoon. A shelter-in-place order was in effect for the Colorado Springs Airport. (Video courtesy KKTV via Twitter)
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VIDEO: Akerman fire in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Fire Department tweeted out this video after 2 p.m. on Thursday. The Akerman fire, which was originally reported in northeast Colorado Springs in the Summer Grace Street and Akerman Drive area, is roughly 25 acres in size, according to a Colorado Springs Fire Department update around 2:30 p.m. There was evacuation order in place…
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Colorado Springs fire marshal Brett Lacy updates media on emergency efforts
Two fires in Colorado Springs prompted evacuation orders Thursday from fire officials. Colorado Springs fire marshal Brett Lacy updated the media with the latest. (Video: O’Dell Isaac/The Gazette)