There was a fire downtown, and three businesses burned.
Durango has a flair for disaster, and has had a good stretch this winter. A few weeks ago two kids skiing down a ridge in town were caught in an avalanche. There must have been a dozen rescue vehicles there, and since the kids were wearing avalanche beacons they were in fact rescued. Most of our firemen have attended avalanche rescue workshops, so what could be better than rescuing an avalanche victim within city limits? As it turned out, that was just a warm up.
Downtown was filled with fire trucks and firemen from towns as far as thirty miles away. A three building fire that threatened to engulf a city block had everyone working together.
There were stockpiles of oxygen tanks and of water
and our firemen were heroes, every one.
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