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Emergency crews from multiple agencies battled a 21-acre blaze on Friday when a house fire turned into a wildfire, triggering evacuation orders for residents in northern Peyton.
The Birdseye fire burning just north of Peyton is 90 percent contained, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said Saturday afternoon.
The Birdseye fire burning just north of Peyton is 90 percent contained, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said Saturday afternoon.
Temperatures throughout Colorado shattered records Friday as triple-digit heat rolled in after recent weeks of rainfall. “The whole state’s pretty toasty,” meteorologist Cameron Simcoe said.Cities along the I-25 corridor began seeing record heat early in the afternoon on Friday. In Colorado Springs, residents endured temperatures that tied a 96-degree record set 38 years ago. By 2 p.m., Pueblo residents had seen temperatures outside reach a sweltering 103 degrees, breaking the city’s previous record set in 2016. In Alamosa, outside temperatures reached 92 degrees early Friday afternoo...
A rainy Memorial Day weekend made the final splash in a rainier-than-average May for the Colorado Springs area. "It's definitely above normal for this time of year," Cameron Simcoe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said of recent wet weather. On average, 1.99 inches fall during the month of May in Colorado Springs, according to data going back to 1991. As of Sunday evening, this May nearly doubled that amount of rainfall, with 3.97 inches for the month. That number doesn't come close to the record for May, which was 8.13 inches of rain in 2015. Simcoe said the recent b...