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People who break into abandoned missile silos near metro Denver will now face a new consequence on top of potentially fatal injuries \u2014 a $5,000 fee from the rescue teams that must go in after them.<\/p>\n

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The Sable Altura Fire Department plans to start charging people who trespass and get trapped in the deserted nuclear complexes after an \u201cunprecedented\u201d rise in break-ins and rescues, Arapahoe County officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Crews with the Deer Trail and Sable Altura fire departments have rescued five people who broke into the sites and became trapped in the last two years, agency leaders said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Two of those rescues happened within a week of each other earlier this month and sent an 18-year-old woman to the hospital for carbon dioxide exposure after she was trapped in a silo for at least four hours.<\/p>\n

Before that first rescue in Deer Trail two years ago, Sable Altura Chief Rich Solomon said he doesn\u2019t remember another person getting trapped in the silos in his 25-year tenure with the department.<\/p>\n

One factor law enforcement officials said may be contributing to the increase in trespassing is the rising popularity of urban exploration, or urbex \u2014 when people break into abandoned or derelict man-made structures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of urban explorers that are on social media and the more that they publicize going through these abandoned buildings or missile silos, the more these kids want to do it,\u201d Arapahoe County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson Ginger Delgado said. \u201cSo our message is: Please don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Colorado is home to 11 abandoned Titan and Atlas missile silo complexes, none of which are open to the public, and several of which are known to have toxic levels of carbon monoxide, contaminated water and soil, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n

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The complexes are not only potentially deadly for the people who break in, but also for the crews who must go in after them, Sable Altura Division Chief Tara Monks said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen rescuers go down, we try to be as safe as possible, but they\u2019re also going into the unknown,\u201d she said. \u201cBy 50 to 60 feet down, communication is limited, radios don\u2019t work, we\u2019re going into places where we can\u2019t talk to each other\u2026 We don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going into, and we always take a risk when we send somebody over the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old woman and two juveniles who were with her are facing trespassing charges for the July 8 break-in, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff\u2019s Office. A 28-year-old woman who was rescued from an underground shaft on July 14 and her 19-year-old companion are also facing trespassing charges.<\/p>\n

The property owners have done everything possible to secure the sites, Solomon said, including installing fences and locks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI imagine that we all lock our doors at night and we trust that that\u2019s safe,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then if we woke up and found somebody crawling around in our basement in the name of urban exploration, we would probably feel violated and we would probably want that person charged. That\u2019s what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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