citizens in South Korea, Guam, Japan, and Hawaii,” if it came to an armed conflict, says Denver OEM executive manager Ryan Broughton. The mayor and his appointed staff had recently ran a “routine exercise” which touched on current events, planning for the relocation of U.S. When we reached out to the Denver Office of Emergency Management to ask about the shelters, they were top of mind for them. Eagle-eyed Denverites can still spot some of their marker signs around town, just look for the yellow and black sign with three triangles. They’re the old civil defense fallout shelters.
Yet, there are still safe places to go inside many of the city’s public buildings in the event of doomsday. To be sure, the threat of a detonation in Denver remains very, very small. While the thought of nuclear war has largely been relegated to history lessons and old YouTube videos, recent rhetoric between the leaders of North Korea and the United States has raised the specter again. Jim Hill/CPR News The fallout shelter sign on the north side of the Denver City and County Building, looking back toward downtown along Colfax Avenue.
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