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Florida man in Colorado. Digital editor @NPR’s Mountain West News Bureau. Past: @CBSNewsColorado, @SunSentinel. Drummer too. Love alligators.
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Man accused of starting massive Denver fire deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial

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By Austen Erblat 
| KCNC-TV (Denver, CO)
The man accused of starting a fire that destroyed a construction site in Denver earlier this year has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, court records show. Tony Becerra is charged with 28 felonies — 26 counts of arson, burglary of an occupied structure, and criminal mischief — related to a Jan. 2 fire at a construction site off Leetsdale Drive and Colorado Boulevard for a planned apartment building.
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Xcel Energy investigating Denver power outage and apartment fire

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By Austen Erblat 
| KCNC-TV (Denver, CO)
Xcel Energy is investigating a power outage that was reported around the same time that a fire broke out at a Denver apartment building on Wednesday. A power pole was leaning at an angle against the building at 8525 East Hampden Avenue, just west of South Yosemite Street, but it's still unclear if the fire caused damage to the pole, causing it to tip over, or if the pole and connecting lines sparked the fire.
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Popular Denver Italian restaurant closes after fire

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By Austen Erblat 
| KCNC-TV (Denver, CO)
Parisi, a popular Italian restaurant in Denver, is closed until further notice after a fire damaged the interior of the Berkeley neighborhood restaurant. The fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon and appears to have started in the hood system in the kitchen, according to Denver Fire Division Chief Robert Murphy. The restaurant, at 4401 Tennyson Street, provided some updates on social media, saying they'd be closed until further notice. "We will be back," they wrote on Instagram. "I'm gutted right now.
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