Denver, CO
One person injured after explosion at fourplex in Denver’s Washington Park West neighborhood
DENVER — One person was injured and eight units were displaced after an explosion at a fourplex in Denver’s Washington Park West neighborhood Thursday evening.
Denver Fire Department crews were dispatched around 6:06 p.m. to reports of an explosion in the 400 block of South Lincoln Street. Three units from the fourplex were directly impacted.
Denver Fire provides preliminary information after explosion in Denver neighborhood
One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, according to Captain JD Chism, public information officer with Denver Fire. Residents were in the building at the time of the explosion, but everyone has been accounted for, Chism told media crews.
First responders at the scene told Denver7 one dog was rescued, but another was found deceased.
A neighbor says her 4-year-old cat, Kita, has not been found since the explosion. He is pretty friendly/ not skittish, though he may be now, his mom told Denver7. He has a gray bow tie collar, but he recently pulled his tag off. Kita is microchipped.
If you do find Kita, please bring him to the Denver Animal Shelter.
Xcel Energy shut off power and gas to the structure. Investigators will return to the scene in the morning to begin their work.
Chism said the department can’t say what caused the explosion at this time. Fire crews used thermal imaging cameras and meters to check for gas. A drone team also responded to the scene to help with the investigation.
The building to the south of the fourplex was also impacted by the explosion. It is unclear at this time if residents will be allowed back in the building, Chism said.
Neighbors in the surrounding area do not need to be concerned, Chism said Thursday evening. He said residents up and down South Lincoln will experience gas and power outages.
“We won’t leave the scene until we search and get our meters into some of the adjacent buildings to make sure that there’s no gas and there’s no hazards,” Chism said.
A total of eight units were displaced by the explosion. The Red Cross is connecting affected residents with housing.
Denver Fire has turned the scene over to the Denver Police Department and the city’s building department.
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Denver, CO
Flights Into Denver Accidentally Made It Snow
Congratulations, passengers aboard United Flight 5528 into Denver on Saturday night, you made it snow. More precisely, your airplane did, as did other aircraft landing at Denver International Airport that evening, but the United jet fared particularly well as a weather-maker, reports the Washington Post. In the story, meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explains that planes arriving between around 6pm and 7pm inadvertently flew through “a cloud of supercooled water droplets” and triggered a light snowfall. It was modest enough that nothing accumulated on the ground.
The phenomenon has been documented before, but it’s relatively rare and requires just the right combination of below-freezing temperatures and high relative humidity, explains a post at ViewFromtheWing. The “supercooled water droplets” mentioned above remain liquid under such conditions because they have “nothing to freeze onto to become snowflakes,” writes Cappucci. The jets give them that something—tiny particulates in the exhaust. The same general principle of “artificial ice nuclei” applies to the practice of cloud seeding, which CNN previously explained here. (More strange stuff stories.)
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Denver Health unveils naloxone vending machine that offers live-saving drug free of charge
Denver Health unveiled a no-cost naloxone vending machine on its hospital campus on Monday. The vending machine distributes the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan, free of charge.
It’s available to the community through the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s VEnding machine Naloxone Distribution in Your community, or VENDY, program.
“We really engaged our community members with substance use experience to help us build this program. They told us how this could work to build the program,” said Nicole Wagner, PhD, Assistant Professor, CU School of Medicine.
“This machine is simple and elegant and so is the message: your life matters regardless of your disease,” said Sarah Christensen, MD, Medical Director of Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment, at Denver Health.
Those who want access to naloxone can visit the vending machine at the Denver Health Hospital Campus, outside Pavilion K, located at 667 Bannock St. There are also medication and hygiene kits available for free 24 hours a day.
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