09-05-2025
Fountain Fire hosts town hall to discuss mitigation
(FOUNTAIN, Colo.) — The Fountain Fire Department (FFD) hosted a town hall on Thursday evening, May 8, to discuss the City's wildland mitigation efforts.
According to FFD, the goal of the town hall was to educate and foster discussion around wildland fire safety and mitigation strategies, especially within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)—areas where development meets natural vegetation and fire risk is elevated.
Attendees heard from representatives of FFD, the Fountain Police Department, Fountain Utilities, the Fountain Parks Department, and the Office of the City Manager.
The department detailed a mitigation project it completed last month in Hibbard Park–a spot City Parks believes has a high wildfire risk. Crews thinned out brush and grass which could help spread a wildland fire. The City has also identified seven to eight open spaces FFD wants to address immediately with mitigation.
FFD stressed that the community is pivotal to the department's responses to fire events.
'On those high fire danger days, those high fire risk days, if you see something, say something,' said Division Chief Jared Cass. 'If you see smoke, call 911. Don't assume somebody else has already called, because maybe nobody has. And the sooner we get notified about those, the quicker we can put them out, the smaller they stay, the less damage to the environment and our community.'
FPD reminds the community that the best way to stay connected to first responders and be alerted if ever there is a wildland emergency is to sign up for community notifications at
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