Fire Department fighting 2-alarm fire near Fillmore St, smoke seen across Colorado Springs
Michael Logerwell
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Fire Department is asking people to avoid an area near Nevada and Fillmore St as firefighters battle a 2-alarm structure fire.
The fire department says the blaze is located at 3117 Century Street, at Beacon Building Products.
CSFD says the fire sparked on a pile of styrofoam and construction materials, creating a huge cloud of black smoke in the lot of a warehouse, which became visible across the city.
“We were hanging out at our buddy’s house, probably 2 or 3 blocks that way, and his kid was just sitting in the window, and he looks out, and he’s like, there’s a huge cloud of black smoke in the sky,” says local, Syreena Hamby. “Making our way in, there was a lot of traffic going on. People running across the road. We were like, what is happening? The smoke was really intense. You couldn’t see like behind you at all. Walking through it was kind of crazy.
As an extra safety measure, CSFD says hazmat crews were on scene monitoring the air quality.
“Just to make sure that none of those chemicals from the styrofoam got into those buildings,” says the spokesperson for the fire department, Ashley Franco.
While firefighters were able to stop the flames from spreading to the building itself, they remained on scene for hours to snuff out stubborn hotspots under all the material.
Century Road has since been reopened to drivers.
The fire was successfully contained, and there are no reported injuries; however, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.