COLORADO SPRINGS — Some of you may have seen smoke from an area in Northern El Paso County. The Pikes Peak Ranger District is conducting prescribed burns in an area north of Rampart Reservoir.
The number of calls emergency personnel received prompted the Colorado Springs Fire Department to put a message out on their social media channels.
HEADS UP!
— CSFD PIO (@CSFDPIO) February 3, 2025
Seeing smoke??
The Pikes Peak Ranger District is conduting pile burning operations today, February 3rd north of Rampart Reservoir. Smoke is visible from Colorado Springs!
In a news release, the Pikes Peak Ranger District says this is a long-term project which began last year and is expected to finish by the end of the summer of 2026.
The district says the project spans about 2,000 acres of National Forest System lands near the reservoir.
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