Doctors are treating detective wright tonight. Doctors here at parker hospital say they are seeing promising progress. In detective dan brights condition. He is now responding to stimulus. Now that is certainly positive shown incredible support. How people rise to the occasion. Business next sunday will be an honor of detective dan bright. Got a hundred dollar bill. And i got 50 dollars. Donations have already come pouring in. Even though the shop is closed. I asked them all. Do you want a receipt. Anything. No. Just take care of dan. The news of detective brights improving condition is certainly a boost. For the i believe right now everybody thats praying for him. Hes getting better. The support will undoubtedly continue. Youll get better and pull through. Well get you back in the car. The entire area blind me to the south is the fire danger zone. Now firefighters tell me this fire is about ten percent contained. Right now. But still growing. And if you take a look at the sign behind
Firefighters. Reporter the winds have calmed down considerably since noon when they were gusting up to 30 miles an hour. Now it is call matt dusk. They had the road blocked off it is under a mandatory llcreek evacuation. We packed overnight bags and all of our neighbors have evacuated. Reporter on the verge of tears, Candace Stewart tried to keep it we got 4 dogs and 2 cats out. Reporter there was no time to load up their three horses. I dont want to talk about it. Reporter in this peaceful canyon northwest of fort collins the beauty is disrupted by a thick smoke eclipsing the sun on a day that would otherwise be perfect. More than 60 firefighters are on the ground. We are on the edge of the fire. Candace hope. Its unclear how these roadblocks will remain in place as ground crews and their support continue to try to contain the blaze. That was not the only major fire that burned today across the area. Crews around the Eastern Plains were able to get this 200 acre fire under control in
Low 90s and its dry. Well talk about fire danger in a moment. Back to you two for now. This is our cbs4 library cam. The taste of colorado going on and road closures remain in place this morning. That includes lincoln and broadway and a portion of colfax. Elsewhere across the denver metro area i think you will like the drive. Kelly, on these weekends they pick up the cones in the nonlong termon you have a nice drive. Evacuation notices are in place ahead of a quickly growing wildfire in Larimer County. Nearly 30 structures are being threatened. Shawn chitnis is live outside the Larimer County Sheriffs Office this morning. Whats the latest . Reporter this is a quickly growing fire. When we first learned about this around noon on sunday we were told the fire was just a few larger to 300 acres innize and 10 contained. Lets take a look at video of what the scenes were like as smoke was coming out. Folks were concerned about this fire and the structures that were threatened because of this
New this morning a woman is dead after getting hit by a truck in aurora. Police say a truck slammed into the victim near montview police say when they got to the scene they found her laying in the road in the middle of the intersection. The woman was rushed to the hospital where she later died. The driver was eventually caught and taken into custody. Colfax ave is now reopen near i25 as Denver Police look into a fatal accident there. Police tell us the crash involved a motorcycle. Our photographer on scene could only get to this roadblock the accident was further down. We dont have any more information right now, but well update you when we find out more. A warning for College Students two sexual assaults happened near the cu boulder campus this weekend. One happened in the underpass near broadway and college ave sunday when a man tried to grab her. She was able to fight him off. The woman says the accused attacker is a heavier set man, with curly dark hair. Boulder police are also loo
Pretty nice weather. Temperatures today climbing into the mid upper 70s by 12 00 and around 86 degrees by 3 00. A beautiful afternoon. It makes also for a pleasant night. Temperatures dropping and more fall like weather by the early evening hours. By 9 00 were at 71 degrees. Heres your first alert. Today and tomorrow in the 80s. Still warm on thursy. Well ttlk about the game coming up and heading into the weekend a bit of a change. Well talk more about that in a this morning were starting out more quietly which is nice. However, theres a big hazard. You see the significaat damage to the vehicle here with the front crushed in there and what that officer did, he went down the ramp and turned around and it came back the wrong way. Hes facing the wrong way on southbound i25 so obvious live a hazard. Right now you see traffic breezing by but it could slow down. To get busier. No other major issues unlike yesterday where theres problems. An accidenat 5 00th and sheridan, all gone and clear.