Halogen Lights Can Be Fire Hazard

Fire Destroys Shed, Damages Power Pole

Firefighters said Wednesday a shed fire was started accidentally.

Crews raced to a home on Sunflower Drive, north of the intersection of Cascade Avenue and Fillmore Street, at about 4:10 p.m. Wednesday afternoon on reports of a fire. A shed behind the house was fully engulfed by the time firefighters arrived.

Mary Coobert told 11 News she was alerted to the fire when her neighbors began knocking on her door.

"They were asking for buckets," she said. "So I called 911, and by the time they got here the flames were hot enough that it cracked [my daughter's] back window."

Firefighters were told there were flammable chemicals inside the shed. A spokesperson on scene said a halogen lamp was left on in the shed and likely started the fire.

The flames destroyed the shed and damaged a power pole next to it.

No one was hurt.
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Thursday evening Colorado Springs fire officials told KKTV 11 News halogen lights and lamps get extremely hot.

Apparently, the lamp was underneath a wooden shelf and caught fire, the family lost five thousand dollars in damage and the utility pole.

A new utility pole went up the day after the shed burned down.

Fire officials ask that people who use a halogen lamp to be aware of how they store it and what's being stored near it.