"We had a young man come in Fire Station 1 here in Cañon City, and he was carrying a basket that actually had a newborn male child in it. As he approached our firefighters, he told them that he found this child on his doorstep," said Lt. Shane Roberts with the Cañon City Fire Department.  

The infant was immediately transported to St. Thomas More Hospital for a checkup and was found to be 1-day-old and perfectly healthy.  

Cañon City police later confirmed the teen was actually the child's father. Police say the mother gave birth at home. The mother's age has not been released; the father is reportedly 18 years old.

“We had an incident back in December involving the loss of one of our trucks and the process to get a new one has been going on,” said Fire Chief Jeff Stone to the Morgan County Board of Commissioners at the last meeting on Tuesday, July 2. Stone noted that a dealer in Winder could provide a four-door truck for about $325,000. The old truck was a two-door truck and posed some storage limitations, according to Stone.   

“We want to move to a four-door truck so we can better store what we need to have with us,” said Stone. 

According to Mark Williams, assistant county manager, county staff is finalizing a Request for Proposal (RFP) to get a better idea of fire truck options available and costs. 

The crash occurred around 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Nicholasville Road and Malabu Drive intersection.  

The driver of the car involved in the crash was sent to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, according to Lt. Chris Van Brackel.

Three people inside the fire truck andwere uninjured, Van Brackel said. The firefighters were responding to a reported gas leak, and the truck’s lights and sirens were on. The woman driving the car had a green light, and she told police she did not see the fire truck, according to Van Brackel.