County Public Works crews will temporarily close a portion of Londonderry Drive in northern El Paso County beginning Tuesday to replace curb and gutter, officials announced Friday.
firefighters working on this. imagine the worst possible conditions, a hot, dry, windy day. today the temperature hit 90, the humidity is down to 10% and the winds are sustained 10 to 15 miles per hour with gusts of 25. now, we know that this fire has burned up to 8,000 acres already. the sheriff who is holding a news conference now says that could grow to 12 now, and there s still more work to be done. i m going to step out of the way to show you what we are seeing all day we have seen this ash cloud over parts of colorado springs. the black forest area. we have seen pops of dark smoke. that means something man made, something with chemicals, vinyl, fabric, pressure treated wood, paint is burning. those are homes. as you said, 97 burned. 92 a total loss, five with some type of fire damage. incredible. you think you are looking at a cloud, instead it s a wall of smoke.
northeast and northwest. because of those conditions it is becoming even more difficult to fight. we know there are 500 firefighters working on this. imagine the worst possible conditions, a hot, dry, windy day. today the temperature hit 90, the humidity is down to 10% and the winds are sustained 10 to 15 miles per hour with gusts of 25. now, we know that this fire has burned up to 8,000 acres already. the sheriff who is holding a news conference now says that could grow to 12 now, and there s still more work to be done. i m going to step out of the way to show you what we are seeing all day we have seen this ash cloud over parts of colorado springs. the black forest area. we have seen pops of dark smoke. that means something man made, something with chemicals, vinyl, fabric, pressure treated wood, paint is burning. those are homes. as you said, 97 burned. 92 a total loss, five with some
that number unfortunately is expected to grow, and the reason is because they can t even get back into some of the areas to see if about 80 homes are threatened or not. last year in june, we were covering the waldow canyon fire which destroyed 347 homes, and there were people who lost their homes in that fire who moved 20 miles across interstate 25, to the black forest area, and they have either lost everything or have been evacuated at this time. shepard: we ll get back to you for updates. thank you. some breaking news coming into fox news channel. there s been a shooting in st. louis, andçç this appearet may be quite serious. here s what i have right now. several people shot. that s the police department s words several people shot at the cherokee place business incubator on cherokee street in st. louis, what s that? i don t know police say shots were fired inside the place. the fire department has been
thousands of people from their home, destroys others. firefighters are joined by national guard troops. they are fighting five separate fires. so farth they are zero percent contains. it s affecting more than 7,000 people. one is elisia welsh. she is good enough to join me from colorado springs. tell me, your home, how far are you from evacuating? how far are we from the evacuation area? yes. we re about a mile away from where the fire initially started yesterday just above us. the black forest area is where the fire started. we live just below highway 83. these pictures i m looking at with this huge plume of what looks like big gray smoke, is this taken from our neighborhood? yes. they were taken yesterday. yesterday evening. what are you doing to keep some of the smoke out of your