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Highways 96 and 165 in Colorado's Cluster County were impacted after actively falling rocks made the roads unsafe. Video shows terrifying rockslide in Colorado that forced highway closures Skip to ...
After a mudslide stranded over 100 motorists overnight and indefinitely shutdown a major interstate in Colorado on Thursday, the state is preparing to issue a state and federal disaster declaration.
The closures and evacuations resulted in cancelations on hotel and resort rooms by visitors in Glenwood Springs, exacerbating economic challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] Due to the closure of Interstate 70 and other roads, local businesses were unable to keep groceries, pet food and other items in stock, resulting in empty shelves.
According to Colorado fire officials, the Highland Lake Fire, which started around 4 p.m. on Monday and burned 166 acres near the town of Divide, was 80% contained on Wednesday afternoon.
On October 16, U.S. Route 34, a main east-west highway artery into Estes Park, was closed due to extreme fire behavior and emergency operations. [28] By Sunday October 18, the fire had grown another 30,000 acres and became the first fire in Colorado history to surpass 200,000 acres burned.
After the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire, I-70 was closed in Glenwood Canyon in August 2021 due to significant damage by debris from the fire, causing large detours. [56] The damage after the 2021 landslides required lengthy reconstruction of the road; the highway partially reopened on August 14, 2021.
One person died and another was hospitalized after a vehicle and a tanker truck crashed on Colorado's main east-west highway near Denver on Thursday, sending up a fireball and a huge plume of ...
The Marshall Fire was a destructive wildfire and urban conflagration that started on December 30, 2021, shortly after 11:00 a.m. MST, [3] as a grass fire in Boulder County, Colorado. [4] The fire killed two people and destroyed more than 991 structures to become the most destructive fire in Colorado history . [ 5 ]