A new lawsuit filed Wednesday in Pueblo County alleges that a local power company’s equipment was “a substantial factor” in starting and fueling the highly destructive Aspen Acres fire.
Frank Elmer, Rafael Velez and Seth and Stacy Johnson, a married couple, filed the lawsuit against the , a co-op in southern Colorado, for damage they sustained from the fire, court records show.
As of Thursday morning, the Aspen Acres fire had consumed nearly 100,000 acres in southern Colorado and destroyed nearly 900 structures, according to fire officials.
Itap unclear how many of those are homes, but law enforcement in Pueblo and Custer counties previously announced that at least 337 homes and four businesses had been destroyed.
That alone makes it the since the 2021 Marshall fire and the fifth-most destructive in state history.
The wildfire also remains the seventh-largest on record in Colorado, behind the 108,045-acre Spring Creek fire from 2018, .
This is a developing story and will be updated.
