Homes are being built with, into the wild land areas, and its getting harder to fight the fires, plus we have a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are being threatened on a regular basis. Smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as vail. The fire is roughly 300 acres in size. In the newsroom, russella thon, molly, back to you. Back to you. You. Some grass caught fire earlier, the good news, the fire is 100 contained. It never threatened structures. Its unknown what exactly caused this fire. Now lets check in with meteorologist Stacy Donaldson with the first alert. The fire dang is sticking around until tomorrow . Absolutely, and be aware that it is so dry, with the high fire danger, even a so winds are definitely stronger, 2040mile an hour winds, current gusts for the front range and Eastern Plains arent as intense, but will be into tomorrow as we continue to hang on to the high fire danger. But we have a high wind warning through tomorrow night. In t
Have accidentally left a backpack behind. Its a big tourist spot here, so its not out of the realm of possibilities, but once those . Fficers looked inside, they realized it was much more serious leading to the evacuation and the bomb squad was called in and it was destroyed. Also this morning, denver 7 talking to a Family Member who tells us ansberry had been living in Northern California until 1 year ago. He then left to travel through rockies. Again, the indictment could be released at any moment. Well keep you posted. Mark steward live in the news room. Denver 7. Thank you. Were on fire alert. People are warned they have to leave their homes immediately because of this wild fire. You can see the smoke here. This is burning west of wetmore and east of westcliffe. Its called the junctions fire. The office of emergency in the fires faith. No word how this fire started. The beulah area is under evacuation. People living near highway 65 from mckenzie wet more is closed right now. And hi
6 00 to 7 00. Mid to upper 30s. And then were going to quickly warm. Mid 70s expected by around 2 00. Denver with a high of 75. Clear skies, sunshine, a beautiful end to the week. Weve got Congress Park at 73 today. Littleton, highs in the mid to upper 70s and 50s and 60s in the foothills. Jason, heres your first alert that we have a beautiful forecast for the weekend. Details coming up. We have a bunch of stuff in th start with the power map. We have a power map effecting 2600 customers in aurora. I dont have information. Its effecting the hospital complexes at fit simmons. But Aurora Police tells me the large power outage is effecting the street lights on yosemite to sable and cold fact to alameda and its due to a balloon transformer. They dont have an estimate when it will get repaired. On the northbound side you can see the closure of eastbound arapahoe road under i25 is closed. It has been done overnight weve had a water main break last night that is being cleaned up east of peori
Close loss they would still be in the argument for being in the playoffs. You never know what happens at the end of the season. People start losing games. They start looking for second teams in conferences. Verne incomplete. The top 10. Alabama. Ohio state plays at penn state tonight. Michigan, a big win over illinois. 318. The aggies on the verge here. Louisville. Big win over n. C. State. Nebraska trying to maintain an undefeated streak. Verne christian kirk. Every week that we have been in collins. Getting to know her. 10 years on the force of the Tuscaloosa Police department. Shes retiring, getting married and moving to anderson, south carolina. Shes been such a pleasure to be around and we want to wish her the best. Gary shes our escort to the game. She picks us up. Takes care she picks us up. I drove to the game with he verne great. Thanks. Verne 3314. Gary just saying, for a m, keep it close. Theyre competing with the ohio statemichigan loser, and maybe, if things get really wac
Been filed. My wife is freaking out. My daughter is freaking out. Were wondering whats going on. Everything we have is up in the room and we cant get in the parking lot, let alone into the room. Breaking overnight. A terrifying night for guests in denver. The whole ordeal over now. S. W. A. T. Officers surrounded the hotel for hours all because a man inside wouldnt leave. This barricade was near hampton and tamarac. The man was wanted in assault and possibly a stolen car. No one was hurt in all of this. Ski and snow board season is officially underway here in colorado. Arapahoe basin opened up yesterday. Yeah, its been a long time coming, thats for sure. How was your run . Its great. Cant wait. Pumped for more. Seasons started. Two, one. A basin is the first resort to open, beating out Loveland Ski Area which hopes to open next week. They both opened at the same timeelast year. They did. A basin wins this time. People are so excited. Feeling its going to be a great weekend. Mostly Clea