Basalt and Rural Fire Protection District

Basalt’s fire department is getting an additional station. It’ll be built on land owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Earlier this month, the…

Fire districts in rural and Western Colorado say unintended consequences from a state amendment are hurting their bottom lines. In the Roaring Fork…

Reporter Alycin Bektesh speaks with producer Christin Kay about a mid-valley effort to strengthen fire protection. By creating a new fire authority,…

Voter turnout in Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties ranged from 33% to 39%. That’s based on the number of people voting versus those who received a…

With 66 percent support in both Pitkin and Eagle counties, the Basalt & Rural Fire Protection District was granted a continued twenty years of financial…

Residents will be asked to support their local fire districts through property taxes in this fall’s election.Mike Kennedy vice president of the board of…

If a major catastrophe were to happen in the mid or upper Roaring Fork Valley, emergency workers say they’re now better prepared to handle it. Wildfires…