Children to school when she saw the flames. Its scary. I feel bad for the people who live here . Another day of erratic wind kicked up the fires. There is not a lot of moisture available once it dries out aint the time that we need people to be cautious sparks. 60 firefighters from 8 district has to act fast because, right down the hill sits the hill top neighborhood. Some the people that live right down this path here were watering down the vegetation behind their house. A few of the homes were evacuated as flames came within just a few yards of some of them. The entire hill behind hundreds of homes was either in flames or smoldering as residents could only stand and wait. Reporter ill tell you what. A scary situation now. Everything is out now but there occasionally you can see a few smokes and you can smell the smoke here. Firefighters will stay the night through the evening just in case the wind kicks up any hot spots right now. But ed green back in colorados weather center, the wi
Clearing the streets wasnt the on tng eensive for t city. At the airport, th spent 160 thousand to keep the runways open. Mt of it onopf the line chemical they p down. They spe 72ousand on the spray alone. Whh is over what they bueted for emic. Buadminiators theye worried. T 3 our of 13milln dolludget, 160000 isot significant dollar amount in whole big scheme of airport operations. He says thll kely just go back to the ai to make up the differe and keep an eye onvertime through the year. Another very pleday out there todaywarand mild lead forecter mi nielstracking our current conditio. Mi a red fl warning from 11am ti5pm for st of southern corado. Be careful witanything that could spark a fire. Well have duels, low humidity and strong wind, so if a fire should start it could burn out of control very quickly. Distbae will push north of here, that will create stron southwt wind witgust up to 50 mph. Stronger gusts over the higher elevations. Partly cloudy and mildonht winds pick up after
Shiny side up. Thind of our motto here, so this draining t channel is a big part of that shiny side up program because when the Water Quality is not there, it just imctthe entire experience down here. While the water is out of e way. Riverwalk staff will ao be checking the entire 32 acreso look forreas that might ne me improme. If you see anything th you think could e some provents sp a photo d send it to t historic arkansas rivlk of pueblo authority. Weve got that information on our website, koaa dot com. This morning. The renovation and expansion of the Pikes Peak Humane Society nearly half way finished we got an inside look at the more than 8 Million Dollar project this wk. Dates include a new adoption lobby,hich is separated fr the animal receiving area. Making thingquieter anless stressful for the animals. The is alsa new caadoption area. Receiving areas fo andgs, plusger and r kennels r courtheldnimals. We have raised 7. 2 million for this project, so were only about a million to
Customers of monument wat enterprise befo didinon much they will need to rse rates. As weve reported. Town oicials say because smanagnt. They have to dmatically hike the price of water next ye. And th keeincreasing rates percenper ye for the next 5 years. He callation for me for the fit year jump is probably about 4,200 on myater bl extra for thisext year. At the end o6 years, it most doubles. Ts gointo hitbably th poor the wst and our senior citize or fixed incomes. We have a hard decision before , but we need to me it, unfortunely. A vote on the rate hikes is set for march 7th. Therwill be an open house workop before th to hear co fm affeed customers. Well let you knhen ats scdule news5 uoveredew details abouthtension between City Management and the rank and file at the Pueblo Police department. A recent police ion suey found 94 out of 99 members suppora vote ono cfidence in chief luis velez. Letters reased afterhe survey by bothhehief and the union each higig a need for more officer