New technology and lessons from recent disasters have informed the latest iteration of the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management’s wind-driven wildfire plan. In some ways, the strategy is the same as it ever was, just with increasing urgency. “You can’t wait – minutes matter,” said Andrew Notbohm, director of the PPROEM, told the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners in a presentation Tuesday. The emergency agency covers dozens of jurisdictions and municipalities in El Paso and Teller counties, helping to coordinate responses to large-scale events. While wildfires are a fact of life in Colorado, the newest plan covers a specific, deadly type: wind-driven fires in the built environment. Recent examples include the Los Angeles-area wildfires in January 2025, Hawaii’s Lahaina fire in August 2023 and the Camp fire in Northern California in November 2018. Notbohm said the defining feature is the number of fatalities, which in recent years has exceeded 100 in a single incident.…