In the Colorado town of Nederland, there is still visible rubble and debris from the fire at the Caribou Village Shopping Center. Now, the community is looking towards the future and preventing disasters like this, and the fire department is getting a new upgrade.

The early October blaze wiped out half of one of the main hubs of activity in the town, destroying a laundromat, brewery and doctor's office, among other businesses. But fortunately for those who live in Nederland, the fire was relatively self-contained to the shopping center, not hopping into neighborhoods or catching other houses on fire.

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"When a day like that happens, the adrenaline flows, we go as fast as we safely can," Nederland Fire Protection District Lieutenant Scott Papich told CBS Colorado.

The department's

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