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• Evacuation area stretches south along railroad tracks

  April 20, 2011 11:43 AM

  A rail tanker car carrying hydrochloric acid is stopped on railroad tracks in Monument and awaiting the arrival of a specially trained hazardous materials crew. About 250 homes are in the mandatory evacuation area. The evacuation area stretches along the railroad tracks from Blizzard Valley Trail all the way... more »

• Bent County fire grows but is 90 percent contained

  April 13, 2011 7:09 PM

  FORT LYON, Colo. (AP) - A wildfire in southeast Colorado has spread to nearly 22 square miles, but it is about 90 percent contained after drops of water and fire retardant from the air and work by ground crews. A single-engine airplane dumped water and an air tanker made... more »

• Battle against fire continues in Bent County

  April 13, 2011 2:25 PM

  A small air tanker is now aiding fire fighting efforts in Bent County near Las Animas. An estimated 17 square miles of grass and prairie land has burned, but no structures so far. The fire is about 80 percent contained. Last night fire fighters intentionally burned about 1,500 acres... more »

• Highway 50 to be closed until late afternoon

  January 28, 2011 1:14 PM

  The Colorado State Patrol now confirms one person died in a tanker truck accident east of Salida on Highway 50. The truck was eastbound, hauling fuel, when it came off the right side of the road near Swissvale and rolled. The truck and tanker then caught fire. The... more »

• State Patrol confirms one injury in Highway 50 crash

  January 28, 2011 12:22 PM

  The State Patrol confirms one person was injured in a tanker truck crash on Highway 50 this morning. The road is now closed in both directions. Traffic is being stopped at mile marker 223 and 229 near Swissvale. At this time no official detour has been set up. ... more »

• Six miles of HIghway 50 closed

  January 28, 2011 11:57 AM

  Six miles of Highway 50 is closed near the tiny town of Swissvale, just east of Salida, due to a tanker truck accident and fire. The State Patrol reports the closure is from mile marker 223 to 229. That six miles of highway is two lane and the road... more »

• Air tanker battling Boulder County wildfires

  October 29, 2010 2:53 PM

  Two wildfires sending a plume of smoke over Boulder have prompted evacuations, the call-up an air tanker, the mobilization of dozens of firefighters and the setting of backfires. By the numbers: one fire has burned 20 acres one fire has burned 5 acres 60 firefighters... more »

• NTSB probes rollovers by hazmat tanker trucks

  August 3, 2010 9:42 AM

  Federal safety investigators are probing rollover accidents by tanker trucks carrying propane, gasoline and other hazardous materials. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to know whether equipment similar to the stability systems required for cars would help prevent tanker rollovers. The board is holding a hearing Tuesday on an... more »

• Update: Highway 67 re-opens after tanker crash

  June 4, 2010 3:15 PM

  Highway 67, near the entrance to Mueller State Park, re-opened Friday night after being closed after a tanker crash allegedly caused by a bee. The road, which is the main route to Cripple Creek, was closed most of Friday afternoon and evening because of a tanker rollover. The tanker... more »

• BP: 2,000 barrels a day now captured from oil leak

  May 18, 2010 9:36 AM

  BP says its mile-long tube siphoning oil from a blown-out well is bringing more crude to the surface. BP says the narrow tube is now drawing 2,000 barrels a day for collection in a tanker, double the amount when it started operation Sunday. Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles has... more »

• Gulf tube siphoning 20 percent of leaked oil

  May 17, 2010 8:18 AM

  Reporting its first success in containing the massive Gulf oil leak nearly a month after it started, BP on Sunday said oil and natural gas were flowing via a mile-long pipe to a ship at the surface. Yet even as the company reported the success, scientists warned oil that... more »

• Northrop Grumman drops out of tanker competition

  March 8, 2010 5:23 PM

  Northrop Grumman Corp. says it won't compete against Boeing Co. for a $35 billion contract to build refueling tankers for the Air Force because it doesn't think it can win. Northrop's chief executive officer and president, Wes Bush, said Monday that the Pentagon guidelines for the program favor Boeing's... more »

• Tanker spills oil after collision off Texas

  October 21, 2009 10:49 AM

  The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday responded to a tanker collision in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off Texas that the ship's captain said led to an 18,000 gallon oil spill. "The leak has been secured and there were no injuries reported on either vessel," the Coast Guard... more »