A raging Fire Destroys a home in lakewood, apparently sparked by people using a tester to light cigarettes. Stan bush live tonight along west mexico. The house pretty much gutted. Reporter absolutely. And according to the preliminary investigation, that toaster was used to start a cigarette or the ignition point could have been a cigarette in a couch that was in the garage. You can take a look right now and see t that fire did rip through the entire home. Fire spilled out and caught some of the cars on fire. Once this fire got started, there was very little to stop it. Reporter flames crawled out of a house fire that was so smoky at times, firefighters struggled to see where to spray. Meg porter lives across the street and called 911. All of a sudden after that, im saying seconds after that, it burst into huge flames reporter she took this engulfed. Neighbors poured onto the streets, worried that the fire could spread to their home. Lauren heath shot this video,inging it would be the l
Season it still is. Most of these are east of greeley in a scattered fashion. And then wrapping down toward the south and west near the Colorado Springs area. Generally gonna produce a little heavy rain on the plains tonight. And perhaps some cloud to ground lightning. That was the threat today and could be the threat once again tomorrow. And given the fact we dont exactly have a ton of moisture on a lot of the ground surfaces, we could easily see some of those brush firesrk lightning strikes. A raging Fire Destroys a home in lakewood, apparently sparked by people using a tester to light cigarettes. Stan bush live tonight along west mexico. The house pretty much gutted. Reporter absolutely. And according to the preliminary investigation, that toaster was ignition point could have been a cigarette in a couch that was in the garage. You can take a look right now and see that, yes, that fire did rip through the entire home. Fire spilled out and caught some of the cars on fire. Once this f
Lanl. Alameda and union. Green mountain village. They are doing repaving work from 285 out to i70. Police checked out the building on colorado boulevard. Thats all we know on this one so far. You can start collecting your own rain water today. This new law was just recently passed. Shawn chitnis explains what you can do and how. Reporter this issue doesnt seem controversy to those outside of colorado but we know there were reasons and concerns why it took so long to get the change but you can use your rain water to water your plants or wash your car. Change. This change will allow folks to use the rain water because of the concerns related to property rights, that change is going to happen. Technically rain water belonged to those living downstreams so you couldnt collect water before it hit the ground. Some worried that if the water was stored it would prevent others from getting it downstream. For those concerned about where the rain water will go, theres a provision in place that wi
5 31. Good morning, everybody. We have a snow storm in colorado. It has been a while since weve seen this. Deer creek school delayed 90 minute and clay county in bailey delayed 90 minutes, but thats it for the school delays. No cancellations today. We start this half hour with a look at our cold commute this morning. Lets get right into it. Shawn chitnis in lakewood at 6th and sims and what you could be dealing with out the door. Hey, shawn. Good morning, britt. Theres streets beyond me, theres some slush forming at this point. There was some snow that got onto the roads and the side streets, but on the bigger streets, youre going to run into some snow definitely here in lakewood. Thats going to make for a challenge as you go forward with your commute. Lets see you what we saw earlier in lakewood and denver and the tech center. Descent snow falling overnight. Not sticking in a lot of different places. At least not on the street. The trees and plants pecking that up. We have seen plows
Thanks for joining us on the cbs 4 morning news. We start with Team Coverage. Shawn chitnis and jaime lear see live this morning at i70 and genesee. Lets go to her now and the snow has piled up there reporter it has, britt. I cant believe im standing on the sidewalk at this point in time. But this is all fresh snow accumulated in the last few hours. Weve got a good foot of fresh snow here. Its actually not as wet as i thought it was. On our drive out here, we saw rain snow fixture and it has colder. Mobile weather lab tells me its 21 degrees. Its not coming down consistently. No longer that wet heavy snow. What were seeing is once heavy snow has frozen over morrison is where we saw change a little bit. Our roadways from wet to icy and the on ramps where youre going to get in trouble because the snow has accumulated there and the snow plows on i70 and they havent dwon to the off and on ramps its tricky this morning. You want to give yourself a lot of time when commuting to work. Live fr