Friday night's inferno on Denver's Leetsdale Drive illustrates - once again - dangers lurking at construction sites, such the deadly 2018 Emerson Steet conflagration pictured above.
Exposed and stored lumber and other combustible construction materials, gases and fluids - with even a smattering of Rocky Mountain wind - are a formula for disaster.
Two workers died in Denver's Emerson Street blaze, which roasted 30 parked cars and blistered a dozen neighboring buildings on March 7, 2018. Six people were injured. The clean-up was costly and extensive.
Emerson Street was a three-alarm fire. Friday's Leetsdale blaze went to five alarms and required the assistance of South Metro and Aurora fire crews. Denver Water also provided help, ramping up fire hydrant pressure.
Denver, of course, is not unique. Neighboring Aurora was the scene of a pair of construction site infernos in December 2023.
A Dec. 16 blaze - bottom photo - at East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street also went to five alarms - Aurora's worst blaze in terms of property loss, estimated at $150 million. A Dec. 14 building site fire at South Addison Court went to three alarms.
[Photos: Denver Fire Department, Aurora Fire Rescue]
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