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Aspen. Crews are calling it the freeman fire. Homes in the area received pre evacuation warning, but no word if those became mandatory. Still not clear how the fire started. Lets send it over to katie with the fire danger. Unfortunately, we are not in the clear. Very gusty wind for eagle county. Most of the high country is under a high wind watc very gusty wind today, primarily coming in from the southwest. Dust and Higher Elevation of 240 50 Miles Per Hour will not help firefighting efforts tod...

Reporter on this balmy fall sunday elizabeth fire crews worked to keep up aging equipment. Working well past the traditional fire season. The fire comes at any time of the year. Reporter because of us because of that elizabeth fires are coming to voters in three weeks asking for an extension for new fire and other equipment. What we are going to ask voters to do is not raise taxes, but allow us to continue a tax initiative. Reporter the chief says his crew responded to a wildfires last week alon...

Crews are out on frying pan road fighting a wildfire. Evacuations could be possible if the fire continues to spread. Well update you if anything changes. To the north of that fire, crews spent the night keeping their eyes peeled after a fire in gypsum were destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The threat of more fires is very real as in colorado. Boulder county is under a red flag warning through this evening. The National Weather service is warning of near critical wild...

Homes are being built with, into the wild land areas, and its getting harder to fight the fires, plus we have a much higher risk of loss to our community because the homes are being threatened on a regular basis. Smoke from the freeman fire is visible as far away as vail. The fire is roughly 300 acres in size. In the newsroom, russella thon, molly, back to you. Back to you. You. Some grass caught fire earlier, the good news, the fire is 100 contained. It never threatened structures. Its unknown ...

Over the southeastern portion of the state. There will be enough wind to cause issues today including an elevated by your danger with a red flag warning for denver and Eastern Plains today. 30s and 40s around town right now with 40s in the colorado high country. By 9 a. M. 63 and by noon 75. The High Temperature today right around 76 so 10 degrees cooler than it was over the weekend. He will certainly noticed the milesperhour and temperatures dropping even more into tomorrow and wednesday we wil...

This is the news on monday, october 17. I am alan gionet. Here is what is happening here on the cbs4 warning news. Shawn . Reporter both campaigns, through our state before the last president ial debate. We will have a preview coming up. The battle to regain control of the iraqi city of muscle is here this morning. Republican party office is firebombed. Coming up the differences in reaction from the president ial candidates in the final push to get your vote begins today with some candidates in ...

Warning has been posted for later on. Temperatures right now in the 40s around denver with 40s, 50s, and 60s in colorado. Much more straight ahead. Right now lets get a check on the traffic. Here is joe. Here is a look from copter 4 around the area of i225 with reports of a rollover accident southbound i25 at the merger. I will give you the full report backups coming up. Campaign 2016 news here we go. First mailin ballots will go out today for this election. That means you will have to get those...

Being with us. Im you can see that entire area is under extreme or very high fire danger. We have our matt croshel on the way to the fire. Matt tell us what youre seeing. Reporter you can see the smoke miles away. This is a massive fire. I was able to confirm that homes have burned. They are confirming that structures have been lost in right now 11,000 acres are burning and 3,000 people are evacuated. Theres a lot more that are preevacuation notice. But 3,000 people evacuated as this fire contin...

The southern part of the state for the junk and fire is burning is very very dry. The fire fires burning writing here following the coming up and over and out and over in london toward west withington and rolling over the mountains you can see pueblo and u. S. P. Q. Toward the us 50 toward the canyon city area. 13,300 acres and growing. Its not heavy populated but there are a lot of homes and in that area. Ms. Denver. The wind dont really let up until about 11 p. M. And while the winds will be r...

Mike and his dog were out for a walk near the nether land home. When he stumbled upon an abandoned mine. Falling. 40 feet down the shaft below. There with two skid marks over the edge of the snow. The dog injured his back leg. And under went surgery. But survived. That mine has since b sealed off to make sure no one else falls again. It could have been a kid that fell in. Back in the late 18 hundreds. There were thousands of these small Mining Operations across the state. But today only a handfu...