Eastbound I-70 reopens near Georgetown after vehicle fire ⁠7%

By Lauren Penington⁠6%

7/22/2026, 12:58:09 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Appeal to Authority, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 17.4% saturation with 23 hits. Analysis detected 78 faulty-reasoning hits from 132 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (20,388 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.20% of the article peer group.

Eastbound Interstate 70 was closed near Georgetown for several hours Wednesday morning after a semitrailer caught fire, according to law enforcement. 
As of 9:20 a.m., eastbound I-70 had reopened between Exit 228 for Georgetown and U.S. 40, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. 
The highway first closed at about 5:50 a.m. 
Wednesday. 
Photos posted by the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office showed a commercial semitrailer on fire early Wednesday morning. 
No injuries were reported, and the fire was knocked down by 6:15 a.m., sheriff’s officials said. 
The Colorado State Patrol is investigating the fire, Clear Creek sheriff’s officials said. 
This is a developing story and may be updated. 
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132 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers53%attributed speech62writer words
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Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageColorado Department of Transportation • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageClear Creek County Sheriff’s Office • 18 words • 0.0% coverageClear Creek sheriff’s officials • 16 words • 0.0% coverageColorado State Patrol • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverage
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23 attributed words33% of attributed speech39% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -24.2 ptsWriter: 24.2%Colorado Department of Transportation: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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