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Missouri Task Force 1 flies to Hawaii to help in wildfire recovery efforts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A team from Missouri Task Force 1 sent four people and four canines to help with recovery efforts in Maui.FOX 2's Laura Simon spoke with Missouri Task Force 1 Canine Handler Cathy Schiltz about how their team will help with the recovery mission."Our dogs that we're bringing out there on this mission are all human remains detection dogs, so they're trained specifically to find human remains," Schiltz shared. Sidewalk repairs trap 92-year-old woman in her home The two Missouri teams, based in Columbia, Missouri, are sponsored by the Boone County Fire Protection District and are currently in Maui. According to the Boone County Fire Protection District, the group of K9s is part of the additional 20 search dogs that Hawaii officials requested on Tuesday.It's unknown how long the group will be deployed.

Infant skull fracture reported after alleged daycare fall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

ST. PETERS, Mo. – A St. Peters childcare center is at the center of a lawsuit following a head injury the mother says she was never told about.The mother says she later learned her infant son had a skull fracture.The Missouri Office of Childhood cited Kids Kingdom on Four Winds Drive in St. Peters with failing to supervise a 5-month-old when he reportedly fell out of a bouncer and onto his head. The state also cited the center for failing to tell the infant’s parents anything even happened.“This was entirely preventable,” attorney Chris Finney said.Finney just filed a lawsuit over the incident that happened last October. Sidewalk repairs trap 92-year-old woman in her home “You never want to hear that your young child has a skull fracture and a subarachnoid hemorrhage,” he said.The report from state investigators confirmed a complaint that “Staff did not call the parent... when he fell out of a bouncer and hit his head.”Finney says the mother happened to notice a bump later while “...

Denver weather: Hot and dry days as heat wave hits

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Hot and dry conditions will engulf metro Denver Wednesday and the temperatures in parts of northeast Colorado will exceed 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.Increasing cloud cover will hold in heat and winds rising in the afternoon could gust at speeds as fast as 17 miles per hour, the weather service said.The high temperature in Denver will be 97 degrees, decreasing to 64 degrees at night, forecasters said. On Thursday through Saturday, the high temperature is expected to be 94 degrees.In the mountains west of metro Denver, a few high-elevation storms may develop, kicking out bursts of wind. Meteorologists said any rainfall in the mountains will be light. No rain was expected in Denver until, possibly, Friday afternoon. In eastern Colorado, temperatures on Wednesday are expected to reach 100 degrees around Lamar, La Junta, and Julesburg.It will be hot today with most locations over northeast Colorado in the upper 90s to around 100 degrees. High-based showers and...

A familiar Denver chef is back with an upscale omakase restaurant

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Chef Duy Pham almost left the restaurant industry altogether when he departed from his executive chef role at For[a]ged in the Dairy Block three months ago.“I’m kind of at that age where I need to do this because I love to do this. or I need to do less of it before I no longer like the industry, which was where I was headed,” he said.Luckily, the Vietnamese chef, who rose to local restaurant industry fame in his 20s while working for now-shuttered restaurants like The Normandy and Tante Louise, decided to stick around. Pham has now partnered with restaurateurs Steve and Jessie Liu on a third Hana Matsuri, a Japanese fusion restaurant with locations in Westminster and Lakewood.But Pham has put his own flair on the new spot, which opened last month at 658 S. Colorado Blvd. in Glendale. He’s started an omakase program (only at this location) for $150 per person with 20 or more rotating items on the menu each night, depending on what fresh fish and seafood he can get his hands on....

This Denver hummus popup has people craving each silky bite

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Brady Weinstein is on a mission to change how we eat hummus. (Pronounced, he says, with a guttural HOOM-us.) At his semi-weekly popup — a one-man hummus show he calls Hummus Capara — Weinstein will school you on eating hummus warm, as a meal and with a spoon. (Don’t even think about eating it straight from the fridge, with your baby carrots and celery sticks.)Brady Weinstein is the man behind the one-man show that is Hummus Capara in Denver. (Provided by Brady Weinstein)“Most likely, unless you’ve been to the Middle East, you haven’t had hummus like this,” the musician-turned-hummus devotee said. “It’s not the hippie granola hummus you find at your farmers’ market. I’m trying to make it like you’re blindfolded and eating it where it comes from. I always tell people, ‘You’ve just gotta try it, man.’”Weinstein is quick to point out he’s aware of the almost absurdity of being a white American Jew from Houston, Texas, trying to make the type of hummus you’d eat in the ...

Dumpling pizza is now a thing in Denver. Will it catch on?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Gyoza pizza probably isn’t something you’ve seen — or eaten — before. But it is, in a way, exactly what it sounds like: a deconstructed dumpling that uses fried gyoza dough as the crust and an assortment of traditional (and not-so-traditional) dumplings, fillings and sauces as toppings.“People here in America love dumplings … we serve a lot of gyoza at (Daughter Thai),” said Ramintra Korkerd, the manager of Gyoza Pizza. “You guys also love pizza. So, we thought about combining (them) together. It looks like pizza, it’s the same idea.”For instance, Spicy Tobiko Gyoza is made with a water pan-fried crispy skirt gyoza, along with a cheese blend, spicy mayo, a tobiko and seaweed sprinkle, shitake mushrooms, and pork, or chicken. It is served with sweet black soy sauce, cilantro ginger sauce and chili oil.The concept is the brainchild of the owners of Daughter Thai, a popular four-year-old restaurant in the River North Art District. But Gyozo Pizza operates entire...

Colorado has more than 332,000 homes susceptible to wildfire damage, report says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

A wet year may have provided a mental reprieve, but Colorado continues to have more homes at risk from wildfires than any state besides California, according to the Wildfire Risk Report from CoreLogic.And within Colorado, metro Denver and Colorado Springs, not communities high up in the mountains, are where the largest property losses are most likely to occur.CoreLogic, which provides risk estimates to insurers, utilities and local governments, estimates that 332,716 homes in the state have a moderate, high or very high risk of damage from wildfires. Rebuilding those homes, if they were destroyed, would cost an estimated $140.9 billion.The only state with a higher wildfire exposure to its housing stock is California, with nearly 1.28 million homes at risk and an estimated replacement value of $760.8 billion. Texas has the third-highest wildfire risk ranking with 233,434 homes at risk and a reconstruction cost of $85.5 billion.Although rural mountain communities have long dealt with ...

9 dog-friendly spots in metro Denver that will keep your pup’s tail wagging

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Dogs may very well outnumber Denver residents these days (especially after the surge of pandemic puppies). And after a ruff day, there are a lot of people who don’t want to choose between unwinding with their human friends at a bar or spending time with their best canine pals.There’s a reason those ”puppy dog eyes” always win.“When we would get home from a long day at work, our dogs were always excited to see us,” said Manuel Baca, co-owner of Littleton’s Coal Mine Ave Brewing, which has an off-leash dog area for customers. “And we’d feel guilty leaving them at home if we met up with friends. So we thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could walk our dog to a brewery where they could enjoy themselves while we enjoyed some craft beer?’”Luckily, Denver is the most dog-friendly city in the country, according to a recent survey, and although the rules differ in each of the cities and towns that make up the metro area, there are plenty of places  where pooches can ...

Video shows thunderstorms move into Southern California

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

A series of thunderstorms were spotted across Southern California Wednesday morning.Video showed lightning strikes in the sky over the 405 Freeway near Mulholland around 3 a.m. Flashes were also seen in the Mission Viejo area.A lightning strike hits over the Los Angeles area from the 405 Freeway near Mulholland on Aug. 16, 2023. (RMG News)Reports of early morning rain were also reported in Riverside and other parts of the Inland Empire.Forecasters called for thunderstorms to continue through the day in some areas with the best chances of continued thunderstorm activity in the mountains and deserts, the National Weather Service said. Man shot by police on golf course allegedly armed with two guns With any storm involving possible lightning strikes, there are always concerns about wildfires being sparked. Despite some wet conditions, hot temperatures are expected to continue for our inland areas. Cooler conditions and more thunderstorms, resulting from Tropical Cyclone Hillary, are...

Want to stay on the Bay Area’s famed floating island with palm trees and lighthouse? Now you can.

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:46:48 GMT

Long ago in a wine cellar deep below the waterline in San Francisco Bay, Tony Bennett broke out into his beloved signature song as he visited Forbes Island, a then-popular floating restaurant near Pier 39.It was Bennett’s birthday, and he and another friend came to the human-made island to tour it, recalled its builder and then-owner, Forbes Thor Kiddoo.“I was showing the wine cellar, and then he just started singing, ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco,’ and so I let him finish because he’s got a wonderful voice and it’s a famous song,” Kiddoo said of the impromptu intimate performance.“We’ve had so many parties and so many great times,” he recalled of the floating island’s former glory days.Not that all was smooth sailing for Kiddoo, who built Forbes Island by hand, launching it in 1979 in Sausalito. After living and working there for decades, the Brooklyn native ran into trouble with a state commission that made him move his self-propelled concrete and steel island. He ...