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Douglas County SAR Training Exercise Douglas County Search and Rescue held a training exercise at the Dawson Butte Open Space Trail near Larkspur on October 2nd, 2022. SAR members and Douglas County Rangers began the exercise looking for a missing and possibly injured young girl. Teams fanned out to cover the area using standard search techniques. AirLife Denver was also …

Wildland Training Exercise The Douglas County Office of Emergency Management and the Franktown Fire Protection District held a wildland training exercise in Franktown on October 1st, 2022. Franktown firefighters responded to a fire on the southeast corner of Colorado 83 and Colorado 86. The fire jumped Colorado 86 and moved quickly into the Burning Tree subdivision. Additional resources were summoned …