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Residents in the Silverthorne area say the response to a house fire there over the weekend is underlying the importance of having a nearby fire house. Read more ... 

No one was injured in an early morning fire that destroyed a home under construction in Silverthorne’s Eagles Nest neighborhood Saturday, Dec. 10, according to Summit Fire & EMS. Firefighters were called 1265 Golden Eagle Road a few minutes before 6:30 a.m. and arrived 13 minutes later to find the home fully engulfed in flames, Summit Fire spokesperson Steve Lipsher said. For nearly two hours, about 25 firefighters battled the blaze in “brutally cold conditions,” Lipsher said.

More than 25 firefighters put out a fire that could be seen from Blue River Parkway on Saturday morning. Summit Fire and EMS responded to the 1200 block of Golden Eagle Road, in the Eagle's Nest neighborhood, to a fire at a home that was under construction. Five engine companies, including Breckenridge-based Red, White & Blue Fire responded to the fire. Read more ... 

The increasing risk of wildfires in Colorado is driving insurance carriers to raise premiums on homeowners’ policies — if they decide to insure them at all — and now the state’s insurance chief is suggesting a publicly funded pool of money be established to provide property insurance for those who can’t find it in the open market. Colorado experienced massive, destructive wildfires in the past few years, including the Marshall fire, which caused an estimated 

 ​​​​CBS News Colorado has reported that Summit Fire and EMS knows it needs a fire station in Silverthorne which it said was "booming" in population, but that there wasn't the money to do a fully staffed station yet.

The Summit Fire and EMS board of directors has chosen a concept for a fire station in Silverthorne — a move that comes after months of public pressure at Silverthorne Town Council meetings. According to the concept, the Silverthorne Fire Station would have two pull-through bays, six dorm rooms for staff, a kitchen, fitness room, day area and office space. SF&EMS Board President Lori Miller added that fully staffing the station up front might not happen immediately, but there would be at least resources north of Interstate 70.

It was always the plan to build a fire station in Silverthorne, but not necessarily right now. "This has been a lightning rod issue here just in recent weeks and we understand that. Fortunately, we are not sensing this is an adversarial thing, everyone is striving to do the same thing. Let's get a fire station built and staffed here," Steve Lipsher with Summit Fire & EMS said Wednesday. Residents have been vocal about their disappointment in a lack of a station.