Wednesday, July 14, 2021
4:10 a.m. Steamboat Springs Police Department officers responded to a call about a bear outside of a restaurant in the 500 block of Lincoln Avenue.
2:37 p.m. Routt County Sheriff’s Office deputies received a complaint about an animal in the 54 block of Colorado Highway 131 in Oak Creek.
8:35 p.m. Officers were called about a reported theft in the 2500 block of Village Drive.
8:45 p.m. Officers took a report of a hit-and-run vehicle crash on 10th Street and Lincoln Avenue.
10:50 p.m. Deputies received a call about a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of Chuck Lewis State Wildlife Area.
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.