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DENVER — With high winds and dry conditions, firefighters at West Metro Fire Rescue say they are sending more resources to each fire. “We have more fire engines, more brush trucks and more firefighters on the ground to catch a fire as quickly as possible,” Lt. Brendan Finnegan said. He said on days such as […]

DENVER — Vaping has become more popular. It’s seen on the streets of Denver, occasionally at house parties. But one place you don’t expect to see it is inside the State Capitol. However, that was not the case inside a State Committee room on Monday. State Sen. Daniel Kagan discreetly vaped while presiding as a […]

MIAMI — Jurors trying to assess the truthfulness of defense lawyer Stephen Gutierrez’s closing arguments in an arson trial Wednesday might have been dismayed to notice that his pants were on fire. Witnesses say the lawyer had to flee the Miami courtroom with smoke billowing from his pocket, the Miami Herald reports. When he returned, […]

NEW YORK — An e-cigarette exploded in the pocket of an employee at a New York City wine store Wednesday, badly burning the man, his attorney said. Otis Gooding, 31, was standing behind the store counter and talking with co-workers when the e-cigarette exploded, burning his leg, thigh and hand, said attorney Sanford Rubenstein. Security […]

SALT LAKE CITY — A homeless man is being hailed as a hero for saving a dog abandoned in Salt Lake City. Now his good deed has sparked a community effort to give him a huge thank you in a way he wasn’t expecting. Ron Howell says he spends his days standing on an off-ramp […]

AURORA, Colo. — An Aurora apartment resident tells the FOX31 Problem Solvers a mysterious man is effectively turning her building’s hallway into his own  bathroom. The concerned mother says the man leaves excrement and cigarette butts in the area when he appears at approximately 9 p.m. and doesn’t leave until 7 a.m. The building is […]

DENVER– Starting Friday, smokers visiting the 16th Street Mall have to hold off on lighting up. The city’s smoking ban is in effect, banning all cigarettes, marijuana and vaping devices within 50 feet of the mall. Denver Police Department officers were giving verbal warnings to people still smoking on Friday afternoon. Many people claimed they […]

DENVER — The city’s smoking ban on the 16th Street Mall goes into effect on Friday. The Breathe Easy ordinance is designed to make the mall a cleaner and healthier place. All smoking is banned, including cigarettes, cigars, marijuana, vaping and electronic devices. It’s illegal to light up within 50 feet of the mall between […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — A couple moving a gas grill in an SUV were injured on Sunday when one of them lit a cigarette and an explosion happened. Police in Orlando, Florida, released photos that showed extensive damage to the Kia Sorento with the roof blown out and the air bags deployed. The windshield was on […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – A lung cancer screening CAT scan changed Darlene Livingston’s life.  “I had a mass on my lung,” Livingston said. The former nurse at Swedish Medical Center had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for most of her life when her doctor suggested she get the lung cancer screening CAT scan that […]

DENVER — The Denver City Council passed the proposed smoking ban on the 16th Street Mall on Monday night. The ban will start on Dec. 1 and signs will placed on every other block along the mall. The ordinance bans cigarettes, cigars and electronic smoking devices within 50 feet of the pedestrian mall between Broadway […]

DENVER — The push to ban smoking on the 16th Street Mall moves a step closer to reality on Wednesday when the measure will be heard by a committee of the Denver City Council. The proposal is igniting a lot of emotion from both sides of the issue. The so-called breathe easy ordinance would ban […]