The bandshell at Denver’s City Park was destroyed in an overnight fire, according to Denver fire officials and a nonprofit that uses the bandshell.
City Park Jazz, which hosts jazz concerts every week over the summer at the bandshell, said in a statement Thursday that the structure is a “total loss.”
City Park Jazz said the fire happened around 2:30 a.m. and a Denver Fire Department spokesperson said they got a call around 2:40 a.m. By the time firefighters arrived, the mostly wooden structure was entirely engulfed in flames, DFD said.
Investigators are still looking into the cause of the fire and don’t yet have any preliminary conclusions, but said a Denver Zoo security guard was the initial 911 caller…