Tag: Office Of Emergency Management
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Disaster drill tests Denver’s response to widespread power outage
What if, on a hot summer morning, a powerful tornado were to touch down in central Denver, leaving a widespread path of damage, creating a prolonged power outage across most of the city, and possibly the airport? That’s exactly what the city’s Office of Emergency Management, along with close to 140 participants and agency representatives,…
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Avs draw biggest crowd to downtown Denver since 2019
The Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup playoff game on Saturday at Ball Arena, mixed with Juneteenth celebrations downtown, drew the largest crowd to Denver since St. Patrick’s Day 2019, according to data from the Downtown Denver Partnership. About 277,520 people came downtown Saturday to enjoy the Avalanche watch parties, helped by Denver’s streamlined approval process for…
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Colorado wildfires threaten new homes in high-risk areas with out-of-date protection plans
Fire chief Jay Teague discusses the wildfire preventative measures for the Four Mile Fire Protection District. (Video by Skyler Ballard and Katie Klann) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “NEWS | Wildfire prevention with Four Mile Fire Protection District”, “description”: “Fire chief Jay Teague discusses the wildfire preventative measures for the Four Mile Fire Protection…