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Learning from the Fire

Click a Picture to Enlarge The Lamar Fire Department spent the day this past Saturday, February 16, conducting a controlled house fire as a training exercise.  The abandoned house in the 500 block of South 4th Street in Lamar had been scheduled to burn the week before, but the exercise was postponed because of windy […]

Fire Ban Enacted in Prowers County

The prolonged drought, coupled with seasonal winds prompted the Prowers County Commissioners to pass a resolution reinstating the ordinance banning open fires in Prowers County. Sheriff Jim Faull and Kyle Neill, Fire Chief of Holly Fire Protection District discussed the ordinance prohibiting open fires in the county. Regional news recently centered on the rangeland fires near Franktown, […]