{"id":108410,"date":"2026-01-02T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:51:09","slug":"suspects-sought-in-connection-with-fire-near-dragonmans-shooting-range-in-el-paso-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108410\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspects sought in connection with fire near Dragonman&#8217;s shooting range in El Paso County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragonman\u2019s shooting range and the Ellicott Fire Department are asking the public for help in identifying two people believed to have caused a fire on the first day of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office briefly issued an evacuation order north of the Schriever Space Force Base around 1 p.m. Thursday due to a fire at 1200 Dragonman Drive, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EPCSheriff\/status\/2006821439631143029\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a social media post from the <\/a>law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Ellicott Fire Department extinguished the fire, and the Sheriff\u2019s Office lifted the order about 20 minutes after deputies told residents to evacuate. The evacuation included the area west of Curtis Road, south of Davis Road, east of Blaney Road and north of Highway 94. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top?q=dragonman%27s%20range&amp;filters=eyJyZWNlbnRfcG9zdHM6MCI6IntcIm5hbWVcIjpcInJlY2VudF9wb3N0c1wiLFwiYXJnc1wiOlwiXCJ9In0%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a separate post<\/a>, Dragonman\u2019s staff confirmed that the fire started behind the shooting range and was caused by incendiary ammunition, which they said they don\u2019t allow.<\/p>\n<p>The post goes on to say that witnesses saw two shooters fire rounds that sparked a flame on the berm before indicating that they may have caused it. The two packed up and left a short time later. While part of the incident was caught on the shooting range\u2019s surveillance footage, staff members are asking for additional information to narrow down names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking if anyone has more information to call us at (719) 683-2200,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire department and all of us at Dragonman\u2019s would like to know who these individuals are. This could have been very damaging to us and our neighbors!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dragonman\u2019s staff said they may start checking visitors\u2019 rounds to prevent future sparks and fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sucks this is what it might come down to, but the safety of individuals and our facility are incredibly important (to) us,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/01\/01\/suspects-sought-in-connection-with-fire-near-dragonmans-shooting-range-in-el-paso-county\/\" onclick=\"openPopup(this.href); return false;\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/01\/01\/suspects-sought-in-connection-with-fire-near-dragonmans-shooting-range-in-el-paso-county\/&amp;text=Suspects+sought+in+connection+with+fire+near+Dragonman%26%238217%3Bs+shooting+range+in+El+Paso+County\" onclick=\"openPopup(this.href); return false;\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#e9d69a9c8b838c8a9dd4aa818c8a82ccdbd9869c9dccdbd99d81809accdbd9889b9d808a858ccf8b868d90d4819d9d999ad3c6c68e88938c9d9d8cc78a8684c6dbd9dbdfc6d9d8c6d9d8c69a9c9a998c8a9d9ac49a869c8e819dc48087c48a8687878c8a9d808687c49e809d81c48f809b8cc4878c889bc48d9b888e86878488879ac49a8186869d80878ec49b88878e8cc48087c48c85c499889a86c48a869c879d90c6\" title=\"Share via Email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/01\/01\/suspects-sought-in-connection-with-fire-near-dragonmans-shooting-range-in-el-paso-county\/javascript:window.print()\" title=\"Print Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"article-social-share-icon\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"copyToClipboard('https:\/\/gazette.com\/2026\/01\/01\/suspects-sought-in-connection-with-fire-near-dragonmans-shooting-range-in-el-paso-county\/'); return false;\" title=\"Copy Link\">&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dragonman\u2019s shooting range and the Ellicott Fire Department are asking the public for help in identifying two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[48580,138,1060,1536,140,139,19387,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-108410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-dragonmans","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-county","11":"tag-el-paso-county-sheriffs-office","12":"tag-el-paso-headlines","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-evacuation-order","15":"tag-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}