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On June 1, Eagle County entered into an intergovernmental agreement with Eagle River Fire Protection District and Greater Eagle Fire Protection District to provide funding for the 2021 Eagle Valley Wildland cooperative program. The agreement…
The latest state drought map has bad news for the Eagle County and the rest of the Western Slope. That means it’s a good year to tap into wildfire information resources.
In a cross-departmental training exercise, there will be a Wildridge Wildland Fire Evacuation Training on Wednesday, May 26, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
There will also be a test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. This warning system is a test messaging system that reaches all cellular phones regardless of subscription in a specified area. In addition, reserve 911 and EC Alert notifications systems will both be tested.
This is a training exercise and will not require evacuation or road closures. Residents can expect to see police activity and door-to-door knocking in certain areas of Wildridge during this training. Officials recommend the public use this as an opportunity to develop and practice their personal or family emergency plan.
Eagle River Fire Protection District / Special to the Daily
This news could be old by the time you read it, but: River-watchers aren’t expecting much in the way of high water this spring on Tuesday, the Vail Rec District canceled its whitewater race due to low flows.
Below-average snowpack, combined with a cool, moist period in this stretch of May, has eased runoff into local creeks and rivers. All that could change with torrential rain, or a sustained warm spell could swell local streams. For now, though, streamflows up and down the valley are well below 30-year medians.
That doesn’t bode well for summer. Virtually all of Colorado’s Western Slope is in either “extreme” or “exceptional” drought