Jaclyn Allen is a Denver7 Weekend Anchor and Contact7 Reporter.
Just blocks away from the Colorado Mills Shopping Center, a suburban Lakewood neighborhood had three power outages in five days last week, with one lasting almost 24 hours.'This stuff has to get thrown out,' said Pat Warling as she sorted through a freezer full of spoiled food Wednesday. 'This summer's been horrible. It's been going out at least once a week, and last week was three times.
However, there is something new with the way Xcel crews are handling outages. In a statement to Denver7, a spokesperson for Xcel said it is now visually inspecting its lines 'to ensure these incidents do not create a wildfire risk or ignition.' 'Due to the high wildfire threat in the region at this time, we are taking extreme care to visually inspect our lines to ensure these incidents do not create a wildfire risk or ignition.
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