Fire Education

Black Forest Regional Park is still recovering from the Black Forest Fire that left it heavily damaged. The El Paso County Parks Department recently completed an assessment to determine the best trail plan for the park. The department, in conjunction

Three years after the Black Forest fire burned more than 14,000 acres and destroyed nearly 500 homes, the skeletons of charred trees are a constant danger amidst a massive cleanup and mitigation effort aimed at being better prepared for the

As Sherri Little surveyed a group of volunteers toiling in her Black Forest backyard on Tuesday, a Bible verse came to her mind and brought tears to her eyes. “Pity the man who falls without someone to pick him up,”

BLACK FOREST, Colo. – Two years after the most destructive fire in Colorado history, homeowners in Black Forest face new challenges. Bill Mantia remembers exactly where he was the day of the fire. “I was in the back of the

It was the worst of fires – and then came another one even worse. It was a fire in a subdivision and then it was one in a wooded, rural community. It was a fire of quick rebuilding and then

The Colorado State Forest Service and the Arbor Day Foundation have donated 10,000 trees to residents of Black Forest in El Paso County and the Big Thompson Canyon in Larimer County. Five thousand trees will go to each community. In

BLACK FOREST, Colo. — Sparse branches are what’s left of the Black Forest Fire of 2013. “We can have this event over, and over, and over again. We’re not done with it,” said Margo Humes, Fire Marshall for the Falcon

BLACK FOREST, Colo. – Restoration projects continue in Black Forest, nearly two years after the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history devastated the area. The group “Black Forest Together” held a forest recovery symposium on Saturday. Community members learned how

With record high temperatures, gusty winds and grass fires returning to the region in recent weeks, it was fitting that about 100 people turned out to Black Forest Saturday to talk about fire mitigation. “Another fire is on it’s way,

In June 2013, Darrell Fortner was in Denver, an hour’s drive away, when one of the worst fires in Colorado’s history bore down on his hometown of Black Forest, killing two people and incinerating 486 houses, including his. Also among