{"id":21123,"date":"2020-01-25T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62721"},"modified":"2020-01-25T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:41:28","slug":"firefighters-battle-snowcat-blaze-with-snowmaking-equipment-at-keystone-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/firefighters-battle-snowcat-blaze-with-snowmaking-equipment-at-keystone-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle snowcat blaze with snowmaking equipment at Keystone Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit Fire & EMS responded to a snowcat that was engulfed in flames at Keystone Resort on Jan. 16, 2020. <\/strong>
Courtesy Summit Fire & EMS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

KEYSTONE \u2014 Summit Fire & EMS responded to a fire at Keystone Resort last week after one of the mountain\u2019s snowcats burst into flames.<\/p>\n

At about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 16, a crew with Summit Fire arrived at the resort and was escorted in snowcats to the top of Dercum Mountain, according to Chief Jeff Berino. While the firefighters brought extinguishers with them, they ended up using a more creative method to douse the flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the help of Keystone crews, we were able to hook into the snowmaking system and get some water on the fire, which is pretty innovative,\u201d Berino said.<\/p>\n

Images show the vehicle engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time we got there, it had mostly been consumed,\u201d Berino said. \u201cThere were a lot of plastics inside the vehicle, along with hydraulic fuel and diesel. Keystone did some suppression efforts also. But by the time we got up on the mountain, it was a total loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the vehicle couldn\u2019t be saved, no injuries were reported. Berino said the cause of the fire is unknown and that the resort didn\u2019t ask the department to investigate. He noted the department could launch an investigation of its own if foul play was suspected, but he said that wasn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

Berino also said this was the second snowcat fire on Dercum Mountain in recent memory, but he said the last one was several years ago.<\/p>\n

In all, it took firefighters about 2 1\/2 hours to put out the fire once they arrived on scene at the base of the mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a long night for everybody,\u201d Berino said.<\/p>\n

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Summit Fire & EMS responded to a snowcat that was engulfed in flames at Keystone Resort on Jan. 16, 2020. Courtesy Summit Fire & EMS KEYSTONE \u2014 Summit Fire & EMS responded to a fire at Keystone Resort last week after one of the mountain\u2019s snowcats burst into flames. At about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 16, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:22:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}