North Metro firefighters responded to a small fire at an oil and gas site near Huron Street and 156th Avenue on Saturday night. The site is run by Extraction/Citivas.
In response to the fire, the City and County of Broomfield asked for operations to be suspended until investigators could determine the cause of the fire. However, on Sunday afternoon, city officials say they received a report from the company, as per an operator agreement, about the fire, and they deemed it okay to resume operations.
“Extraction/Civitas said a function test of the source equipment is scheduled for later this afternoon while wells are shut down and no active drilling is occurring. Again, CCOB Inspectors and NMFD staff will be onsite for this test and any subsequent restart of normal operations, currently anticipated between 5 – 7 p.m. today,” said the city in aThe report also says there was no structural damage from the fire.
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