{"id":1313831,"date":"2019-08-21T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=986388"},"modified":"2019-08-21T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T00:53:33","slug":"investigators-still-trying-to-figure-out-what-sparked-tuesdays-house-fire-in-glenwood-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/investigators-still-trying-to-figure-out-what-sparked-tuesdays-house-fire-in-glenwood-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators still trying to figure out what sparked Tuesday\u2019s house fire in Glenwood Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Firefighters work to extinguish the last flames from the porch of a Glenwood Springs home Tuesday, Aug. 21.<\/strong>
Thomas Phippen\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Fire investigators are still working on determining the cause of Tuesday\u2019s house fire in Glenwood Springs, which left no one injured but caused extensive damage.<\/p>\n

First responders were called to the scene on West 12th Avenue off Riverview Drive near Midland Avenue shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still working on the investigation trying to figure out what caused the fire,\u201d Glenwood Springs Fire Chief Gary Tillotson said. \u201cBecause the family wasn\u2019t home, they have no indications of what might\u2019ve happened. Our fire investigators are still working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tillotson said there was some concern Tuesday afternoon that the blaze could have spread, noting a 40-foot spruce tree beside the residence caught fire, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, yesterday, we didn\u2019t have any strong winds,\u201d Tillotson said. \u201cThat would be the difference between yesterday and a week ago when we were having those red flag warnings.<\/p>\n

\u201cStronger winds could\u2019ve carried those embers farther and created more of a risk of spread.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took about half an hour to put out the blaze, with more than a dozen firefighters, emergency personal and police on scene. <\/p>\n

Tillotson complimented the Glenwood Springs Police Department for the role it played in helping extinguish Tuesday\u2019s blaze.<\/p>\n

According to Tillotson, firefighters and police officers worked together to quickly hand lay 400 to 500 hundred feet of hose.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour or five of those police officers pitched in and helped us hand drag that hose, and they were just awesome,\u201d Tillotson said. \u201cThey were very, very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the house\u2019s condition, Tillotson said, \u201cI can\u2019t say it is totally destroyed but it is extensively damaged. But, I believe it is repairable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Tuesday\u2019s house fire, an outpouring of community support for the displaced family, which included a mother, father and three children, had founds its way onto social media.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday evening a \u201cHouse Fire Personal Emergency Fundraiser\u201d on Facebook had raised $2,660 through 56 individual contributors.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Firefighters work to extinguish the last flames from the porch of a Glenwood Springs home Tuesday, Aug. 21.Thomas Phippen\/Post Independent Fire investigators are still working on determining the cause of Tuesday\u2019s house fire in Glenwood Springs, which left no one injured but caused extensive damage. First responders were called to the scene on West 12th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 08:57:32","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}