An independent investigator has been called in to review how Colorado’s most destructive wildfire was handled. The decision Monday by the Black Forest Fire District follows public squabbling between El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa and Black Forest Fire Chief …
Scores of new homes are springing up just one year after the Waldo Canyon Fire ravaged a Colorado Springs neighborhood. Flames crossed into the Mountain Shadows subdivision on June 26, 2012. The fire killed two people and destroyed 347 homes. …
Since Superstorm Sandy smashed the Jersey shore, owners of flood-damaged homes along the New Jersey coast feared something else might happen to their properties, sitting vacant and largely unwatched. Those fears came true for a dozen homeowners Wednesday morning in …