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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Denver to test emergency sirens Wednesday
The Denver Office of Emergency Management will conduct an annual live test of the city’s all-hazard outdoor warning sirens at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Sirens will sound continuously for approximately three minutes while city officials evaluate new remote activation technology. The test does not require any action. “As severe weather patterns continue to shift, our alerting…
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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’s support effort underway for Afghan refugees
After months of life-shattering uncertainty and loss, an Afghan family of three sat at a dining room table to eat breakfast on a recent morning at a facility in Colorado with perhaps a sigh of relief to know they’re almost home. They are the first of around 1,000 Afghan refugees in an unprecedented state-run program…
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Colorado wildfires threaten new homes in high-risk areas with out-of-date protection plans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…