CU BOULDER

30th annual Sustainability Summit on tap

The University of Colorado Boulder will hold its 30th annual Campus Sustainability Summit on April 19-20 at the University Memorial Center on campus.

Faculty, staff and students will share and learn about CU Boulder’s sustainability leadership, accomplishments and future goals. The summit is free and open to the public and is in honor of Earth Day’s 53rd anniversary April 22.

Events will be held in the afternoons and will include panel discussions, workshops, a town hall and a climate action expo. Topics include climate anxiety, clean energy, waste and discussions about bringing campus to zero emissions by 2050. For a full list of scheduled events, visit colorado.edu/ecenter/css.

CU’s Environmental Center has produced the Campus Sustainability Summit annually or semiannually since 1994.

ERIE

Crews extinguish out-of-control prescribed burn

Emergency crews were able to prevent the further spread of a prescribed burn near Erie that got out of control Tuesday.

Mountain View Fire Rescue tweeted that the fire was called in at 1:12 p.m. near Weld County Road 5 and Colo. 52.

The grass fire burned about 3 acres before crews from Mountain View Fire Rescue and Frederick Firestone Fire Rescue were able to extinguish it.

No structures were damaged and no evacuations were issued, though fire officials did say the fire briefly threatened a tree containing an eagle’s nest.

Hybrid vehicle fire leads to small explosion

A hybrid vehicle fire caused a small explosion at a home in Erie on Tuesday morning.

Mountain View Fire Rescue officials tweeted that dispatchers received a report of a structure fire on Marlowe Circle in the Morgan Hill neighborhood at 8:16 a.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters found a hybrid Jeep 4XE hybrid smoking inside a garage. When crews put water on the vehicle, the battery caused a small explosion, blowing the garage door off its track.

The door flew 30 feet and almost hit a Mountain View Fire captain, but no injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

LAFAYETTE

Good Samaritan welcomes therapy dogs

The Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette is welcoming four-legged, furry volunteers back.

The Caring Canines program is featured at Good Samaritan, 200 Exempla Circle. Volunteers and their certified therapy dogs visit patients and caregivers. It was paused due to pandemic restrictions. Katrina Gebhart, Caring Canines volunteer coordinator, said dogs are there to provide moral support.

Certified therapy dogs are calm, nonintrusive, trained to be gentle and respect personal space. They provide comfort and joy to patients, caregivers and visitors.

For more information, email Gebhart at Katrina.Gebhart@imail.org.

— Staff reports