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A worker at the Cliff House tries to help a man move his van out of the flash-flood zone in Manitou Springs in September 2013.
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Andrew Dunlap and his father, Dave Dunlap, in truck, watch from Black Forest Road as the fire burns behind their house in June 2013.
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El Paso County’s two biggest hazards are floods and wildfires, according to a new countywide disaster plan approved Tuesday.
The risk for both flooding and wildfires ranked “high” in the nearly 550-page Pikes Peak Regional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan, compiled over the last year by emergency managers with the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management and approved unanimously by El Paso County commissioners.
The plan updates and consolidates the 2015 El Paso County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan and the 2016 City of Colorado Springs Hazard Mitigation Plan to include El Paso County, Colorado Springs, Calhan, Fountain, Green Mountain Falls, Manitou Springs, Monument, Palmer Lake and Ramah.