Tag: Marshall Fire
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Tax exemption offered to Colorado homeowners rebuilding after wildfires
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Revenue is offering a tax refund to homeowners who are rebuilding or repairing their homes that were damaged or lost in a declared wildfire disaster. The Sales Use Tax Exemption Wildfire Disaster Construction Act created a refundable exemption for the state…
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200 insurance companies sue Xcel over Marshall fire damages
Nearly 200 insurance companies filed a lawsuit alleging negligent maintenance of Xcel Energy power lines along Highway 93 south of Boulder which may have caused the Marshall fire, the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. More than 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed and two people were killed. The lawsuit claims Xcel’s power line south…
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Law firms recruit Marshall fire survivors for civil lawsuits against Xcel
When Stephen Wenzel called his very pregnant wife in December 2021 to warn her about the oncoming wildfire that would later be known as the Marshall fire, she was sound asleep and oblivious to the danger. “When I got up and looked out the window, my neighborhood was on fire,” said Savannah Wenzel, 29. A…
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A decade later, mitigation against new Black Forest inferno remains incomplete
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As fire erupted in a densely wooded bedroom community northeast of Colorado Springs on June 11, 2013, Laura Lollar was driving home from a working lunch where the lead communications officer for the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire talked about handling unexpected challenges. The coincidence for…
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Marshall fire-affected HOA may be first in Colorado to allow metal fencing
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In what many Marshall Fire victims are hoping will become a movement to embrace safety over aesthetics, the Rock Creek Homeowners Association modernized the rules. It voted unanimously Thursday to allow its 65 Marshall Fire victims, and anyone else who lives in the community, to rebuild using metal fire-proof fencing. RCHOA is believed to be…
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Colorado construction worker dies rebuilding Marshall Fire home
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Marshall Fire victims are mourning the death of a construction worker who was helping to rebuild a Louisville home destroyed in the wind-swept inferno. It’s the third death associated with the 2021 blaze. Two people died in Colorado’s most destructive wildfire, which struck Dec. 30,…
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For some Marshall Fire victims, out-of-pocket costs are re-victimization
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The hits just keep coming for Sandy Quiller. The first “punch” landed Dec. 30, 2021, when the Marshall fire fueled by 100 mph wind gusts tore through dry open space grasses adjacent to her Superior townhome and destroyed it. Quiller’s was one of three unlucky buildings, out of 72 in her housing complex, which were…
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Marshall Fire lawsuit against Xcel Energy can proceed, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A class-action lawsuit alleging faulty power lines might have sparked the Marshall Fire, the most destructive in Colorado history, will proceed after a judge denied the power company’s motion to dismiss. Eldorado Liquor store owners George and Lisa Kupfner filed the lawsuit March 31 against…
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Boulder County releases list of mental health resources for Marshall fire victims
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It’s been nine months since the Marshall fire swept through parts of Boulder County claiming more than 1,100 homes in Louisville, Superior and the surrounding area. Boulder County officials say that research has found it can take up to 60 months for a community to move through disaster response phases. With the one-year anniversary of…
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Marshall fire debris removed, clearing way for rebuild before snow falls
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was a hallelujah kind of day for people who lost their home in the Marshall fire. Eight months after being displaced, hundreds of families are closer to rebuilding their home after excavators with Disaster Recovery Services carted off the last bits of mangled metal,…