COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Exciting news for fire crews in Colorado!
The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) has signed an exclusive-use contract with Neptune Aviation Services for a large air tanker.
Tanker 3 will be available to Colorado crews for the 2025 season, or 120 days, and it's being held in Colorado Springs.
DFPC has been using Tanker 10 for the past three years, but this season's brought change.
Tanker 3 is capable of holding 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant and can be used by all agencies across Colorado.
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The signage went up at National Parks sites nationwide per executive order, but Amache and Sand Creek descendants want history preserved. Just days after the new signs, a small act of defiance surfaced at Amache National Historic Site.
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