An emergency alert has been issued for a small town in Colorado because of a possible loss of containment—a spill or leak—at a nearby oil and gas facility.
Residents in Galeton, Weld County, about an hour’s drive north of Denver, were ordered to evacuate late on Sunday night and Galeton Elementary School closed for Monday.
The evacuation order, first reported by CBS News Colorado, covers a half-mile radius around the scene in the area of Weld County Road 41 and Weld Country Road 72…