This is 9news. Happening now, the condemned castle rock home where explosives were found on halloween is at the beginning stages of getting cleaned up. 9news reporter Victoria Sanchez reports from the neighborhood. R 1 2 weeks ago. It will take professional decontamination before they are able to move back. The Environmental Testing company is doing an ainitial atempt an initial assessment this morning before they can remove the chemicals. The unknown chemicals in the home were found in glass beakers and jugs. Firefighters said combined they could be deadly. When it comes to cleanup, hiring a company and paying for the work is the responsibility of the homeowner. Only when that is completed and approved by the fire able to move back. That cost could go as high as 10,000. Since firefighters and cleanup crews dont know what the chemicals are, everything needs to be tested, logged, decontaminated and thrown away at a Hazardous Waste landfall. It could take one to four weeks until its done
When you think of five points, to mind. Drugs, panhandling, trash but you dont have to look far to see five points is changing into a new hotspot. Trendy coffee shops, breweries and new businesses. Like urban herbs were natalie is concerned about alive large groups of loiterers in front of the store all day every day we rely heavily on foot traffic to come into our little shop here, and i think that its driving a lot of people away. A few doors down say its a difficult balancing act for Business Owners. We have to balance fitting in community and fitting in with the people on the block but also they tell us police dont patrol much here until things get violent and last month old during a shooting. They say neighbors are worried Jennifer Chait gentrification is taking over the culture and that the heart of the west is no longer theirs. For them not to be able to come around anymore they feel white people are pushing them out of their communities. This week Business Owners met with the p
About it, its you know, you got your kids in the community and certainly these people take these bullets for our families and its pretty substantial stuff. Not much is being said about the detectives condition. Serious questions about past contact the deputies had with the shooter. Today the sheriff wouldnt say why the deputies had been to the home before, but we know they had been. We need to acknowledge what west metro firefighters did this morning. They found a girl hide nothing the closet of a burning house. The only reason she is alive is because of the firefighters actions. When children are scared, it almost looked like she had a fort set up in her closet. That is why firefighters beg parents to have fire drills at their home, so kids will learn to run outside instead of inside. Coloradans gather to remember the terror attacks of september 11th. This Years High School freshman were all born after that date. The first class answers the 9 11. Reporter for these freshman, terror is
Tv cameras in town turned to westminster where a police shot and killed a man following a chase. The guy was the suspect in a home invasion, he took off on a motorcycle, crashed near 121st and huron and was seen with a weapon as officers approached. The suspect was shot and killed. No officers were hurt. Water front property in denver has been claimed by a group of people who are homeless, the city went back into reclaim that stretch along the platteiv downtown today. Worker found human waste, spent needles and a lot of trash. Ryan haarer went to chronicle the homeless camp clean up. It is not safe for the individuals that were living in those situations, there is a number of Infectious Diseases that they could expose themselves to, number of injuries. Bob mcdonald is the executive director for the department of environmental health. I have been with the city for many, many years and i can only that other effort, the controversial downtown clean up in march. The city cited Serious Publ
He was on his way to rifle to closed. Customer canceled. That was a thousand dollars run now i just got to go for a 500dollar run. Me. Reporter ooher truckers are great full it wasnt them getting hit by the rocks. Cdot set off a charge toobreak up some of the fallen boulders this afternoon but theres a lot of loose rock has to be scaled off the mountainside. Crews have to repair the damage to the hhghway. Now cdot says the best Case Scenario is is that the highway 3 will remain closed until thursday. Then on thursday they will bring in some work crews to escort with a pilot car eastbound traffic in one lane once it opens. They will do that for about a week and them probably have just one lane in each direction open for a month while they continue the rock mitigation and repairs to the highway here in glenwood canyon. Reporring live Lance Hernandez denver 7. What a mess. The closure between Glenwood Springs and gypsum thats going to put you out of your way north through meeker craig aba