Westfork forms volunteer fire department

Efforts to establish a volunteer fire department for West Fork residents of Dolores County are taking shape. The Dolores Fire Protection District has provided fire protection to r...

Firefighters ending controlled burns at Long Draw

Fire is in a remote area of forest

Smokey Bear educates Kiva students at Carpenter Natural Area

Firewise teaches wildfire lessons

Firefighters predict mild fire season for Colorado

Outlook based on computer models

Mancos expands and celebrates ambulance service

Catching up with the guys in the fire truck

By Mac Neely Whenever we hear a firetruck or an ambulance go by, or we slow down and stop on the highway for one, do you wonder where they are going or what they might have to do?...

Fire destroys home on County Road 32

Homeowner injured, cause of blaze unknown

Dolores Fire: Beware of carbon monoxide

By Kim Jones The Dolores Fire Protection District Temperatures in our Four Corners area are warming up some this week, thank goodness, but we still have plenty of winte...

Dolores Fire upgrades vehicles

Grants cover half the cost for truck, ambulance

Rodent’s nest sparks car fire on Hwy. 160

Pack rat survives blaze; 1998 Jeep doesn’t

Towaoc blaze displaces 7 families

Seven families were displaced Saturday after a fire destroyed an apartment complex in Towaoc. “There were no injuries,” said Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman Manuel Heart. ...

State fire-detection bill moves forward

Lawmakers say technology would revolutionize responses