Tag: fire
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High Chateau fire 100 percent contained; three facing first-degree arson charges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Three Pikes Peak region residents are suspected of starting the High Chateau fire south of Florissant after building an illegal campfire and then failing to snuff it before leaving, arrest documents show. David Michael Renfrow, 23, and Kegan Patrick Owens, 19, both of Manitou Springs,…
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Colorado wildfires update: Rains douse some, while winds stoke others
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A dozen wildfires are burning in Colorado’s forests, displacing families across the state. Some fires have been calmed by rain, while others have been stoked by wind and high temperatures. Here’s a compilation of the most prominent fires in Colorado: Quarry/Twin fires The Twin fire…
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Colorado-based firefighting supertanker deployed to California
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado-based Boeing 747-400 supertanker has been deployed to California to help fight wildfires that have destroyed dozens of buildings and caused at least one death. Scott McLean is deputy chief of California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. He said Saturday the supertanker is…
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Teller County fire evacuees praise firefighters as 1,423-acre blaze nears full containment
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Teller County • The nine-day High Chateau fire in the high forests of Teller County burned through 1,432 acres, at least 10 homes and an as yet unknown number of outbuildings, barns and vehicles. It could have been a lot more destructive if not for…
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Spring Creek fire 43 percent contained, grows slightly overnight
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. 160 between Fort Garland and La Veta is open. Flames and smoke may be visible from the highway. US Hwy 160 reopened. We will update as conditions change. Monitor https://t.co/MC9ixFR1fe for current conditions. Use caution along Hwy 160 as flames and smoke may be visible.…
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Crews at Lake Christine fire in Colorado mark Storm King anniversary
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EL JEBEL • It is not lost on nearly 400 firefighters who have descended on the tiny Colorado mountain town of El Jebel that they are battling a blaze similar to the 1994 Storm King fire outside nearby Glenwood Springs that took the lives of…
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New wildfires sweep through California, burning homes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GOLETA, Calif. — Firefighters battling wildfires throughout the U.S. West that have torched hundreds of homes hoped for some help from the weather Saturday even as new fires swept sweltering Southern California. A fire on the California-Oregon border that destroyed 40 buildings and claimed at…
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High Chateau fire in Teller County nearly fully contained as last evacuees allowed to return home
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last evacuees from the hardest hit areas of Teller County got their first glimpse Friday of the damage wrought by the High Chateau fire, which was nearly fully contained after burning more than 1,400 acres. Residents of the High Chateau and Highland Meadows area…
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Spring Creek fire update: Hwy 160 to reopen; residents in Huerfano County return home
U.S. Highway 160 at La Veta Pass will reopen in both directions at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced Friday. The highway closed June 27 due to heavy smoke, poor visibility and the proximity of the highway to the Spring Creek fire, which became the third-largest wildfire in Colorado Thursday when it…
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Last of High Chateau fire evacuees to be allowed home Friday, crews still working on fire
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Teller County Sheriff’s Office plans to open the entrances to the High Chateau and Highland Meadows subdivisions at 11 a.m. Friday. They are the last two neighborhoods of the 1,423-acre burn area of the High Chateau fire to reopen. Residents must have a vehicle…