GREELEY — A fire burning at oil product tanks at a Greeley well was close to being extinguished Friday evening, fire officials said.
“We’re just working on a couple of stubborn spots,” Dale Lyman, division chief and fire marshal for the Greeley Fire Department, said about 6 p.m.
Lyman said a decision was made initially to keep fire crews away from the site of the well, which injects wastewater from hydraulic fracturing into the ground.
“Since there was no safety hazard, we didn’t want to jeopardize our firefighters by getting them too close, and that proved to be the right choice,” Lyman said. “We started moving in with our foam about 30 minutes ago.”
Lyman said crews would remain on the scene for at least two or three hours after the fire was officially extinguished.
Three homes were evacuated during the early stages of the blaze, in the area of Weld County Roads 64 and 47. Jesse Paul and Anthony Cotton, The Denver Post
