South Metro Fire Rescue service plan approved by 3 counties

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A largely technical change in the records of South Metro Fire Rescue met approval from the elected leaders of the three counties over which the re ghting agency spreads, the agency says.

Residents in the south Denver metro area earlier this year received a letter from the agency about an “amended service plan.” e letter contained legal language and pointed to then-upcoming public meetings of county leaders who would vote to approve or deny the proposed changes.

e amendment doesn’t set the stage for any changes to how South Metro Fire Rescue operates, said Mike Dell’Orfano, a South Metro Fire o cial.

While it’s essentially a housekeeping matter, the document has value historically and in terms of transparency for a re agency that has grown to cover a large swath of the metro area, according to Dell’Orfano.

“How did our legal existence go from this small re protection district to what we are today? And how not only each of those entities came together but each of them grew independently before that also,” Dell’Orfano said. e agency’s history is “several decades of these