Douglas County Colorado – MIDDAY REPORT – The Douglas County Emergency Operation Center and Incident Management Team are coordinating emergency response to the current winter storm.
- A warming center has been opened at SE Christian Church
- Xcel Energy would like to have customers with outage please be directed to report those to Xcel’s Service Center. That Number is [SIMCELL NUMBER 719-214-4562 for this Exercise]. Please do not call 911.
- Douglas County is on accident alert. Roads are icy and snow packed. Please stay off the roads. If you are in a non-injury accident, and there are no drugs or alcohol involved, exchange information with the other driver and file a report online.
- Our dispatch center is receiving several calls regarding smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Be advised, if you have not changed your detectors back up battery it may start to alarm due to the loss of power. If this occurs, please investigate for signs an emergency such as scent, heat, smoke, or flames before calling 911.
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