Thousands of Colorado residents without heat after attack on gas service | ABC News |

The FBI has joined a criminal investigation of what police said appears to be an "intentional attack" on gas service lines in Aspen, Colorado, that left thousands of residents and businesses without heat as temperatures in the skiing mecca plunged to near zero degrees.

Work crews are scrambling to restore gas service, and local authorities handed out electric space heaters to residents still without heat Tuesday, as a storm is forecast to bring up to 8 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountains region this week. Temperatures are forecast to fall to 2 degrees in Aspen on Tuesday night, according to the National Weather Service.

On December 28 at 6 p.m., Black Hills Energy, Pitkin County, and the City of Aspen hosted a virtual community meeting regarding the natural gas outage in Aspen. View the recording of this meeting at [link].#CityOfAspen #BlackHillsEnergy #AspenGasOutage pic.twitter.com/pOOkFhdxfZ

— City of Aspen (@cityofaspen) December 29, 2020

Another attack on infrastructure ... this one likely from the "left" ... #EarthFirst