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The Grand Lake Fire Department is a small combination fire and rescue agency serving the greater Grand Lake area from County Road 4 North to Rocky Mountain National Park. We respond to structure or wildland fires, motor vehicle accidents, technical rope rescue, medical requests for help and everything in between. We are actively involved in emergency response preplanning and in providing the best free public education programs possible.

A Busy Few Days for the Dept.

On Thursday, June 24, 2010 at approximately noon, the GLFPD was toned to a wildland fire across from JR's Restaurant & Bar on Highway 34. Almost immediately there was heavy fire involvement with trees torching, log decks burning and a sawmill that were involved in fire on arrival. Information was passed to incident command by locals that there were propane tanks, barrels of oil, gas dispensing tanks and explosives on the property. Due to safety concerns for the fire fighters and the amount of fire on arrival, incident commander Mike Long determined that the operation would be handled defensively with a containment strategy. The buildings then became secondary to ensuring firefighter safety and making sure the fire was contained to the property of origin.

Forest Service crews were tasked with holding the North and West sides of the fire ensuring the fire did not make a run into the trees or threaten the adjacent subdivision. They were able to pick up approximately seven spot fires which were quickly extinguished. Granby firefighters were assigned to hold the south end of the fire. Fire crews stayed on the fire until 8 pm working hard to create a "cold edge" around the fire allowing the interior of the fire to burn itself out. A single crew stayed on the fire all night to monitor and additional crews returned Friday morning to further extinguish a few hot spots. Other than some lingering respiratory issues from smoke inhalation, no firefighters or public were injured and the fire was successfully contained to the property of origin.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Sheriff's Office.

During the annual chili cook-off festival on June 26th, GLFPD responded to Shadow Mountain lake on the report of two 14 year old males stranded in a paddle boat after a large hail storm had passed through the area. Three crew responded from Town to the station and then effected the rescue utilizing the fire boat. The two young men had drifted to the east side of the lake and were found with no personal flotation devices, dressed in cotton clothes and shivering from mild hypothermia. They were placed on the fire boat, dressed in storm jackets and wrapped in a blanket for the short ride back to Trail Ridge Marina where they were transferred to the ambulance crew for further evaluation. The two boys were treated and released by the ambulance and the fire boat returned to our marina.