A 43-year-old Steamboat Springs man was pronounced dead Wednesday night at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center following a single-vehicle crash at the northeast corner of the intersection at Pine Grove Road and Central Park Drive.
Nearly every day in the past week, firefighters across the county have been responding to fire-related calls.
Credit: John F. Russell (Steamboat Pilot & Today) Author: Dylan Anderson (Steamboat Pilot & Today) Published: 11:02 AM MDT May 7, 2021 Updated: 11:02 AM MDT May 7, 2021
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. On Saturday evening, someone driving on Colorado Highway 131 saw some smoke and called 911. The call went to volunteer firefighters with the Yampa Fire Protection District, who raced out to the scene.
It wasn’t much. An agriculture burn from earlier in the day had continued to smolder and sparked itself back to life around 8 p.m. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire without it spreading.
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Colorado is looking to purchase a Firehawk helicopter, which will better allow them to respond to fires quickly, hopefully putting them out before they spread. (Courtesy Sikorsky/Skip Robinson)
The three largest wildfires in the state of Colorado’s history all occurred last year, with each of them having started out small. A bipartisan bill soon to be introduced in the state Legislature would buy a specialized helicopter to fight fires fast, while they are still small.
State Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, who represents the 8th Congressional District that includes Moffat County and serves on the state’s Joint Budget Committee, is a prime sponsor on a package of bills meant to address wildfire prevention, one of which purchases a Firehawk helicopter.
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Crews from the Oak Creek Fire Protection District and Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue put out a mobile home fire in Oak Creek on Wednesday. All occupants including pets got out safely and two people were transported to the Hospital for possible smoke inhalation. (Courtesy)
A fundraising effort for a family displaced by a fire in an Oak Creek trailer park Wednesday has already raised over $5,000 in less than 24 hours.
“There is a lot of people that want to help so that helps,” said Kenny Morris, whose trailer and its contents were a total loss after the fire on Wednesday. “I went by there today and it is pretty much all gone.”