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CBS News
5 days ago
- Sport
- CBS News
Colorado State University loses "irreplaceable" equipment in logging fire
The CSU Logging Team is recovering from a fire that destroyed nearly all of their equipment, including some crosscut saws that date back almost 100 years. While the loss threatened to cancel their season, team members say the logging community is rallying around them. Teams from across the country are donating money and equipment. "This sport is something so rare, and it's so special to me because it gave me such an awesome part of my life," said recent CSU grad Chris Graham. Graham spent five years competing as part of CSU's Logging Team. "I loved chopping," Graham said. "I really enjoyed- we call it 'barreling,' which is a log rolling in the water." At CSU, the sport dates back to 1939. "Pretty much all disciplines of- lumberjack activities are what they compete in," Graham said. "It's almost like a track meet where you have a large group of competitors that are competing in multiple events throughout the day, that are happening- often simultaneously." As captain and president, Graham worked to grow the co-ed group from five members to 40. He says the club team is student-run and self-funded. "Every year," Graham said, "we probably split and sold 30 cords of firewood, just a really large amount to move for just kids doing it after school." But on July 6, Graham got a call that a fire had devastated the team's logging complex. "I just started brainstorming immediately all this past week, just been on the phone with people and trying to figure out, where do we go from here, to try to help them out," Graham said. When Graham went to see the damage himself, he found two of the team's four equipment sheds were completely destroyed, and another one was damaged. Antique saws, equipment, and safety gear were lost. "A lot of the stuff is what we call pretty much irreplaceable," Graham said. Poudre Fire Authority says it completed an investigation but could not determine the cause of the fire. Investigators said the fire was not suspicious. In December, the Poudre Fire Authority put out a fire in the same area caused by embers from a campfire that was improperly extinguished. And just last week, the agency put out another fire elsewhere on CSU property. That fire burned one structure, and its cause was also undetermined. "I think a lot of people are still in shock about it. It's- there's a lot of questions in the air of; where do we go from here?" Graham said. "If I had to place a guess purely on just equipment costs, I'd bet anywhere in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $60,000 easily. Of course, for an organization that's completely student-funded, that's really hard money to build back." In an effort to save the team he loves, Graham started raising money online. He says teams from across the country have offered to donate money and equipment. Just last week, Northern Arizona University loaned CSU their equipment so the team could compete in a college and rookie show. The team's next competition will be "Choptoberfest," an event they host in October. "The community is unlike any other sport that I've been a part of; it's so supportive," Graham said. The team's current president says he's confident the team will recover and come back stronger than ever.
CBS News
16-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Poudre Fire Authority firefighters rescue and adopt abandoned ducklings in Northern Colorado
Firefighters in Colorado have some new additions to the crew after they rescued four ducklings earlier this week. Poudre Fire Authority crews were dispatched to the ducklings stuck in a storm drain near the intersection of Lemay Avenue and North College Avenue in Fort Collins early Wednesday morning. Poudre Fire Authority A City of Fort Collins employee was there and showed firefighters the ducklings that were trapped in a drain about four feet below street level. A crew member crawled inside and captured the ducklings. The crew waited around, but sadly, the mother duck didn't return. Firefighters reached out to local shelters and looked into other options but the ducklings had nowhere to go. Poudre Fire Authority That's when firefighters decided the ducklings would come home with them. The ducklings lived at Fire Station 1 for a short time. One of the battalion chiefs looked into how to care for them and went to Jax Farm and Ranch to purchase supplies. The store donated all the items needed, from food to heat lamps, when they heard about the rescued ducklings. Poudre Fire Authority The ducklings are now at their new homes and doing great, according to PFA.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
I-25 closed in both directions near Harmony Road
Interstate 25 through Fort Collins is closed in both directions following multiple incidents on Thursday afternoon. A crash was reported on northbound I-25 south of the Harmony Road exit at 5:13 p.m. Thursday, according to the PulsePoint app that tracks responses by fire and emergency medical personnel. At 7:01 p.m., units responded to a medical emergency on southbound I-25, but the app did not provide an exact location. Earlier Thursday, a crash was reported at 2:21 p.m. on the southbound side near the Mountain Vista exit. All three incidents were still listed as active as of 7:45 p.m. The Colorado Department of Transportation website reports that I-25 is closed in both directions south of Harmony Road due to a crash, but no further information about the incidents is available from the public social media accounts of the Colorado State Patrol, Poudre Fire Authority, Fort Collins Police Services or the Larimer County Sheriff's Office. CDOT traffic cameras show vehicles backed up between the Harmony and Colorado 392 exit. Another camera on the southbound side of Harmony Road showed a law enforcement vehicle blocking the road and all traffic being diverted to the exit. Google traffic maps showed northbound traffic was either shut down or stalled starting from north of Crossroads Boulevard to Harmony Road. Southbound traffic was either shut down or stalled from north of Prospect Road to Colorado Highway 392, which is the Windsor exit. This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available. This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: I-25 closed in both directions at Fort Collins near Harmony Road
