A small fire damaged one unit and forced residents to evacuate this morning from The Edge employee housing at Copper Mountain.
Steve Lipsher at Summit Fire and EMS confirms no one was inside the third-floor unit when it caught fire, scorching walls and possessions inside. Smoke soon spread to neighboring units and dozens were evacuated. When full, the complex houses 400 people.
“We were able to put out the fire and limit the damage to that one unit, with perhaps some minor, secondary smoke exposure to some of the other units on that third floor,” Lipsher says.
No one was injured. A fire investigator was on scene most of the day. The cause of the fire has not been released.
Residents on all five floors have now returned home, except for the burned unit.
Summit Fire sends thanks to Summit County Sheriff’s Office and Red, White and Blue Fire of Breckenridge. Deputies evacuated the lower two floors while firefighters evacuated the upper three.
The Edge is Copper’s largest and oldest employee housing complex. It opened in 1981 as a Club Med resort. Copper converted it to housing in 2003.
