Military sends aircraft, trucks, crews to CO fires
Source: SF Gate
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 11:17:41 -0700 | travel-news
Colo. (AP) The military is providing 10 aircraft, more than 40 firefighters and multiple fire trucks and bulldozers to help civilian agencies fight the Black Forest wildfire. Officials said Thursday the equipment includes seven helicopters and two C-130 cargo planes...
Living Smart: Appliance maintenance
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 05:20:14 -0700 | political-news
From the constant opening and closing of doors to turning them on and off, our daily actions can eventually lead to a repair call or earlier-than-expected replacement. With a little preventative maintenance and by following the manufacturers' usage guidelines, though,...
Twilight's last gleaming: The end of American freedom? (Part 1)
Posted by:
tjlarson
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 17:09:46 -0700 | political-news
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military/industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger...
Colo. fires destroy 92 homes, forces thousands to flee
Source: Fox
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 04:02:20 -0700 | green-news
Colo. Jaenette Coyne estimates she had five minutes to leave home after calling 911 to report forest fire smoke behind her home. There was no time to grab wedding albums, fingerprint artwork by her 20-month-old daughter, quilts her grandmother...
Colorado fires sear landscape, force evacuations
Source: CNN
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 01:04:32 -0700 | green-news
Anxiety chokes central Colorado like the smoke smothering its skies. Two ferocious wildfires are roaring across the region, scorching thousands of acres and devouring dozens of homes. "This part, not knowing if I have a house or not is the...
Wildfires advancing in Colorado
Source: The Journal Gazette
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 00:56:50 -0700 | travel-news
A wildfire fueled by hot temperatures, gusty winds and thick, bone-dry forests has destroyed 92 homes, damaged five more and prompted more than 7,000 residents northeast of Colorado Springs to flee, sheriff's official said Wednesday. A separate Colorado wildfire to...
Colorado wildfire destroys between 80 and 100 homes
Source: GMA News
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 06:56:05 -0700 | green-news
A wind-whipped Colorado wildfire menaced the state's second-largest city on Wednesday, forcing thousands of residents to flee flames and choking smoke and ruining between 80 and 100 homes in a wooded subdivision since it erupted a day earlier. The...
Voluntary evacuation order issued as wildfire threatens city of Colorado Springs
Posted by: tjlarson
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 15:27:42 -0700 | disasters-news
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Authorities have issued a voluntary evacuation order for the northern part of Colorado Springs as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that began on Tuesday afternoon. Officials issued the order after the blaze quickly grew from...
Prisoners correction bounce from Colorado black forest fire
Posted by: Chantler
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 12:07:28 -0700 | odd-news
In Colorado Springs, Inmates had to be evacuated after fire blaze confirmation report. Centennial Correctional allowed nearly a thousand prisoners intake. The black forest fire only been recognized thus far as an expectant not actual destruction to transferring Colorado Territorial...
Black Forest Fire burns more homes Wednesday, 6,426 people evacuated, more than 8,000 acres burned
Posted by: shahzad313
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 15:27:42 -0700 | disasters-news
REPORT BY: SHAHZAD DATE: JUNE 12-2013 4:50 a.m. As sunrise approaches, firefighters are still dealing with burning homes. Every few minutes on teh radio, firefighters are reporting a new structure fire. The fire is still throwing spots. Firefighters have been...
Colorado wildfire forces prison evacuation
Source: The Boston Globe
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 17:19:57 -0700 | green-news
Colo. (AP) A wildfire forced the evacuation of more than 900 prisoners at a state prison southwest of Colorado Springs early Wednesday, one of four blazes across the Front Range that destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people...
Colorado fires force thousands from homes
Source: CNN
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 00:09:33 -0700 | green-news
Of the five fires burning, the most problematic was the Black Forest Fire. Tinder-dry conditions and gusty winds fueled the fire, just northeast of Colorado Springs, prompting mandatory evacuations over an area covering 24,000 acres and about 5,000 homes. "Complacency...
Colorado DOC in 2002 mistakenly paroled murderer serving life term
Source: The Denver Post
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-11 23:44:21 -0700 | political-news
Font Resize The Department of Corrections mistakenly released a white supremacist killer who was supposed to be serving life in prison long before it set free another man, the one who is believed to have killed prisons chief Tom Clements....
Thousands evacuated as wildfires burn homes in Colo.
Source: Fox
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-11 22:09:03 -0700 | green-news
Colo. At least four major wildfires fueled by hot, gusty weather burned along the front of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado on Tuesday, destroying a handful of large houses and chasing people from hundreds of homes. Thick smoke plumes...
BREAKING NEWS: Wildfires rage in Colorado
Posted by: tjlarson
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-15 15:27:41 -0700 | disasters-news
Several wildfires are now burning in Colorado as high temperatures and dry conditions have ignited blazes in several areas in the state. Firefighters are now struggling to contain them. There are reports of several homes on fire in the Black...
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