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ai ii--iiiiiiiiiiii <br />FORT COLLlNS COLORADOAN <br />Fort Collins, CO <br />(Larimer County) <br />AM, 23,486; Su, 29,340 ~` <br />COLORADp p~S- <br />CUPPING SERVICE <br />3 <br />~lastingat rogk quarry <br />~'t~'~ves homes the shakes <br />a Fort Corns residents felt the ground <br />move Frltlay attern4on as giant blasts <br />`, from a rock quarr'J,' north of the city <br />` shook hundreds oP omes. <br />No serious damage was reported. <br />Fort Collins poll a otffcials said they <br />received about a ozen telephone calla <br />reporting the expl sions about 4 p.m. <br />The source, they said, was Coktndo <br />Lien, which is located at 16203 N. U.B. <br />Highway 287. <br />' "There were just a lot of houses rock- <br />ing and rolling," said Lis Link, a reserve <br />dispatcher for the Fort Collins po>fue ', <br />department. "1#eople were just eallin~ <br />and saying they felt it." <br />Residents from as far away as Well- <br />ington, LaPorte, Fort Collins and Hell- <br />vue reported Qeeling the blasts. <br />Sam Lien F11~3chs of Colorado Lien said <br />that a larghr-than-normal chunk of <br />quarry beingg extracted was the main <br />reason the bAast was felt so far awt4y. <br />She said that company offietals <br />warned area law enforcement agencies <br />and Poudre Fire Authority before the <br />detonations, <br />Fuchs skid any ntarby resident want- <br />,~t~ warned before the blasts <br />the campagy at 495-7017. <br />