Waldo Canyon Fire Burns Homes, 32,000 Ordered To Evacuate
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – The Waldo Canyon Fire in the Colorado Springs on Tuesday night began destroying homes and forced tens of thousands more to evacuate on Tuesday. Homes could be seen...
View ArticleInsurance Companies Send Crews To Protect Homes
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – When firefighter Eric Morris shows up at wildfires across the West, locals battling the flames sometimes look at him and wonder who sent him. The answer isn’t a public...
View Article1932 Law Prevents Military From Initially Offering Aircraft To Fight Wildfires
DENVER (CBS4) – Wildfires destroyed some 600 homes and burned more than 100,000 acres in Colorado during the past two months and several homeowners contacted 4 On Your Side Investigator Rick Sallinger...
View ArticlePolice Move In To Protect Nesting Owls In Waldo Canyon Burn Area
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – Police in Colorado Springs are working to protect a family of great horned owls. The owls are nesting in a tree in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood. Curious onlookers...
View ArticleOwl Family Moved From Nest In Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- Two Great Horned Owl parents and their babies have been moved from their nest because of all the attention the family had been getting. The family set up their nest in a...
View ArticleWildfire Recovery Picks Up A Year After Waldo Fire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – With remarkable speed, new homes are springing up among the charred and misshapen trees that dot hillsides and cul-de-sacs ravaged by the Waldo Canyon Fire one year ago....
View ArticleAcademy Cadets Help With Waldo Canyon Fire Cleanup
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – Air Force Academy cadets are helping to clear land in areas damaged by last year’s Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs. More than 70 cadets are volunteering to remove...
View ArticleColorado Springs Park Helping Community Rebound 2 Years After Waldo Canyon Fire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – Two years after the state’s most destructive wildfire burned 346 homes in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood, the community is still healing. Helping is the planned...
View ArticleSevere Weather Brings More Flooding To Manitou Springs
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – Manitou Springs residents heard flood sirens Monday afternoon as a storm bringing hail caused flooding in the town that has dealt with the problem since the Waldo Canyon...
View Article‘I’m Going To Get Knocked Out’ Woman Thought While Trapped In Flood
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A woman who got trapped in her car during flooding in Colorado Springs says the road suddenly turned into a river. Kimberly Trujillo was driving her black Chevy on...
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