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Information: Scam Attempts Continue via Fraudulent Texts Posing as Colorado Express Lanes, ExpressToll and EZ Pass

Scam Attempts Continue via Fraudulent Texts Posing as Colorado Express Lanes, ExpressToll and EZ Pass Remember: Express Lane payments are never collected through text messages Statewide – Over the last two years, attempts to scam toll road and Express Lane users across Colorado and the U.S. through fraudulent text alerts have remained unceasing. The scammers typically pose as a toll service, such as Colorado’s ExpressToll, and request users to pay an outstanding toll amount to avoid a late fee. The Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CTIO), the independent organization within CDOT responsible for Express Lanes, never uses text messaging to collect

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Information: STAGE 2 FIRE RESTRICTIONS

STAGE 2 FIRE RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITIONS: Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire. 36 CFR 261.52 (a). This includes charcoal grills and barbecues, coal and wood burning stoves, and sheepherder’s stoves, and includes use in developed camping and picnic grounds. EXCEPT: Devices using pressurized liquid or gas (stoves, grills, or lanterns) that include shut-off valves are permitted when used in an area at least three feet or more from flammable material such as grasses or pine needles. Smoking 36 CFR 261.52 (c). EXCEPT: Within an enclosed vehicle, trailer, or building. Welding or operating an acetylene or other

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Information: STAGE 1 FIRE RESTRICTIONS

STAGE 1 FIRE RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITIONS: Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire.  36 CFR 261.52(a).  This includes charcoal grills. EXCEPT: Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire in constructed, permanent fire pits or fire grates within developed recreation sites and the use of portable stoves, lanterns using gas, jellied petroleum, pressurized liquid fuel or a fully enclosed (sheepherder type) stove with a ¼” spark arrestor type screen is permitted. Smoking, except in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren

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