{"id":1317165,"date":"2019-12-07T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/summit-county-firefighter-dies-after-falling-from-roof\/"},"modified":"2019-12-07T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T06:48:00","slug":"summit-county-firefighter-dies-after-falling-from-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/summit-county-firefighter-dies-after-falling-from-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County firefighter dies after falling from roof"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FRISCO \u2014 Summit Fire & EMS firefighter Ken Jones, 46, died after falling about 60 feet from the roof of a Copper Mountain condo building early Saturday, when crews were working to battle a fire at that location, according to Summit Fire & EMS officials.<\/p>\n

The fire at Bridge End \u2014 860 Copper Road, near the base of Copper Mountain Resort \u2014 was first reported by a call to 911 at 1:51 a.m. Saturday. Jones and a crew from the Copper fire station were the first on scene minutes later, according to Summit Fire spokesman Steve Lipsher.<\/p>\n

Jones headed to the roof of the five-story building to find a way to access the fire. He fell to his death shortly before 2 a.m., according to Lipsher.<\/p>\n

After the fall, emergency workers called to ask for help from another fire station outside of the Summit Fire department.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had an engine crew from Vail come over the pass and continue to work on extinguishing the fire while we relieved our crews as soon as we possibly could,\u201d Lipsher said.<\/p>\n

The building was evacuated, and no one else was injured in the fire, according to Lipsher.<\/p>\n

At this time, little is known about the cause of the fire or Jones\u2019 fall, both of which will be investigated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to officials.<\/p>\n

On-duty death a first for Summit Fire<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 death is the first in Summit Fire department history, and leadership in the department is working to support Jones\u2019 family \u2014 including his wife and two young children, ages 11 and 13 \u2014 along with the Summit Fire team.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say the least, we are all devastated,\u201d Summit Fire Deputy Chief of Operations Travis Davis said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese times can be trying on any organization,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThis is the biggest nightmare that any fire department across the country will ever face. There\u2019s going to be some dark days ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what the fire department is doing to support its employees, Lipsher said, \u201ceverything that you can think of that compassionate humans would do for friends and family and colleagues \u2014 and Ken was all of that to all of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, like every other fire department in the country, have guidelines that we contemplate in sort of an abstract fire. \u2026 Emergency services and emergency responders have dangerous jobs, and it\u2019s always a possibility, but until it actually happens, it\u2019s such an abstract concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis said the department would draw on the support of other organizations across the country that have experienced the death of an on-duty emergency responder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concern when something like this takes place is what it does to the organizations that were involved in the long term,\u201d Davis said. \u201c\u2026 We\u2019re going to do our best to keep this family that we\u2019ve created up here over the years intact during these trying times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a community loss, no doubt about it,\u201d Davis said after a long pause.<\/p>\n

Lipsher said the department would provide benefits for Jones\u2019 family along with counseling for staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing is we want to take care of Ken\u2019s family and ourselves and the broader community as the ripple effects of the tragedy spread,\u201d Lipsher said.<\/p>\n

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FRISCO \u2014 Summit Fire & EMS firefighter Ken Jones, 46, died after falling about 60 feet from the roof of a Copper Mountain condo building early Saturday, when crews were working to battle a fire at that location, according to Summit Fire & EMS officials. The fire at Bridge End \u2014 860 Copper Road, near […]<\/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":["post-1317165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 10:14:51","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\/1317165","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=1317165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}