{"id":3606,"date":"2026-08-09T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:33:16","slug":"grass-fire-kills-1-injures-1-in-greeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Grass fire kills 1, injures 1 in Greeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One person died and another was injured Saturday as a grass fire consumed several acres in northern Colorado, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3605\">Denver weather: Near-record temps forecast for city amid heat advisory, air quality alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greeley police officers and firefighters responded to a \u201clarge, out-of-control grass fire\u201d near the U.S. 85 and U.S. 34 interchange shortly before 1:40 p.m. Saturday, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p>When first responders arrived, they found flames spreading across several acres near a homeless encampment, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified woman, 45, was found dead within the burn zone, according to the police department. Paramedics also took a man, 48, to a Denver-area hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The woman killed will be identified by the Weld County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The highway interchange was shut down for several hours on Saturday for the fire, but all lanes had reopened by 5:45 p.m., according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Greeley police and fire officials are investigating the cause and origin of the fire. Anyone with information about the fire is asked to contact Detective Max Moree at max.moree@greeleypd.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3602\">Colorado\u2019s death rate improves, but traffic crashes and drug overdoses keep it above pre-pandemic levels<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=3603\">Health officials urge caution for Gulf Coast beachgoers during surge of deadly bacterial infections<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greeley police officers and firefighters responded to a grass fire near the U.S. 85 and U.S. 34 interchange shortly before 1:40 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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