Author: By O’Dell Isaac

On Sunday afternoon, in a parking lot near the northeast corner of Academy Boulevard and Austin Bluffs Parkway, an outdoor party was underway, with food trucks, games, a disc jockey spinning tunes and a 6-foot Easter bunny. But the spring jamboree, located outside Green Pharm’s North Academy store, was not the typical Easter celebration. This…

Three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department are part of a team that headed to Tennessee over the weekend to join search and rescue efforts following a series of severe storms that have killed at least 10 people and injured hundreds more, according to CSFD. Colorado Task Force 1, a team composed of responders…

Colorado Springs police confirmed that the “mortars” found at the scene of a grass fire early Sunday in the 3600 block of Oro Blanco Drive were mortar-style fireworks.  The discovery, which took place in the 3600 block of Oro Blanco Drive, was initially reported as mortars in an online blotter entry. After the Colorado Springs…

A group of Colorado firefighters has deployed to California to join an interagency effort to battle several wildfires currently ravaging the southern part of the state. At least five fires, covering more than 45 square miles in the greater Los Angeles area, have killed at least five people, destroyed at least 10,000 structures, and forced…