Warm weather, clear skies and long days means its time to get outside and into the forests around Summit County, but it also means it’s time to watch for wildfire risks. So how should campers, glampers and general gallivanters prepare for a weekend in the wilderness?
Warm weather, clear skies and long days means its time to get outside and into the forests around Summit County, but it also means it’s time to watch for wildfire risks. So how should campers,.
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After years of mergers and changing titles, Summit Fire & EMS has officially emerged as a single, consolidated fire protection district.
For decades, Summit County residents have watched as the organization slowly evolved and merged with fire departments from Dillon, Dillon Valley, Frisco, Silverthorne and Snake River. With the service’s most recent coupling with the Summit County Ambulance Service in 2019 and the formalization of the Copper Mountain Consolidated Metro District’s inclusion in the conglomerate in November, Summit Fire officials decided it was finally time to bring operations under a single banner.
“We often say people don’t worry about the logo on the door of your fire engine,” Summit Fire spokesperson Steve Lipsher said. “They just want you there quickly when they need you. And that still stands. But now we feel like we have a single identity, a single organization with a single purpose.”