Fire investigation continues in Colorado Springs

Investigators are still working to determine the cause of two suspicious fires in Colorado Springs’ west side.

The first one was reported just after 11 a.m., Wednesday, at 19 th and Dale. The second one was reported Wednesday afternoon in the 2400 block of Launcelot Court.

As crews work to determine the cause, neighbors are nervous that the person or people responsible are still on the loose.

Neighbors like Ilda Mendoza was bringing her granddaughter home but knew something was wrong when she saw fire trucks.

“I noticed the fire engine when I got home,” Mendoza said. “I myself have asthma, and so if there’s a lot of smoke, then I have trouble breathing.”

She’s evacuated for fire before, though it was voluntary in 2012 during the Waldo Canyon Fire, she decided to leave over fears she wouldn’t be able to breathe well.

When she heard the fire on Launcelot Court was ruled suspicious, it bothered her.

“The disregard for human life, and for what other people have worked a long time to put together for themselves,” she said.

Fire investigators still won’t link the fire to another one which occurred near 19 th and Dale Wednesday morning and say those investigations are not easy to solve.

“The signs are a little bit more subtle, a lot of it depends on the topography of the area, how the fire spreads and the burn pattern,” said Lt. Carrick Patterson with the Colorado Springs Fire Department.

One home was damaged in the Launcelot Court fire.

If you have any information, you’re asked to call Colorado Springs police at 719-444-7000.