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Firefighters and Meadows Park supporters press City Council about 2026 budget
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Two groups of citizens attended the Colorado Springs City Council’s special public hearing Monday to speak their mind about the city’s proposed 2026 budget. A group of residents who have been pressing the city for weeks about the closure of Meadows Park Community Center told the City Council why they wanted to keep the building…
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Colorado Springs City Council split on proposed EMS enterprise
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The Colorado Springs City Council appeared split on Monday about bringing ambulance services in-house, following five hours of presentation from the Fire Department and city staff on the plan to create a new emergency medical services enterprise. Some councilmembers characterized the potential move away from the city’s current ambulance services provider, American Medical Response, as…
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AMR vs. Colorado Springs Fire Department: How competing ambulance services stack up
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Sabra Shay waited nine hours at UCHealth Grandview Hospital on narcotics to ease her pain before the hospital called an ambulance to take her for emergency gallbladder surgery. Her daughter had driven her to the hospital initially, but by the time the ambulance was scheduled, she didn’t have any other option. Ambulnz by DocGo, a…
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Funding uncertain for Colorado Springs Fire Department’s homeless outreach program
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The Colorado Springs Fire Department’s homeless outreach staff helped get 33 people into housing last year, probably saving thousands in emergency services. In 2023, the program could go away. The grant funding for the outreach program, started in 2019, is set to expire in June. The pending deadline sparked pleas by Colorado Springs City Council…
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Two years of drought in Colorado has turned April into June for fire danger
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After two years of drought, the grasses, shrubs and trees are tinder dry in El Paso County and across the state, cranking up the April fire risk to what the state would normally see in summer. “This is looking more like the middle of June as far as the fuels and the fire danger indices…
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Colorado shifts staff, buys $24 million helicopter for year-round fire risk
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The inferno that swept into Louisville and Superior last week proved the destructive power of a winter wildfire, but many of the aircraft and crews available in the late spring, summer and fall to fight massive Western blazes are not working in the heart of winter when many fire-prone states should see snow. The Colorado…
