No, but only if Ft. Collins is west of the Rocky Mountains, which it is not.
Ya see the first two sentences of this article Mr.Tucker? Read the article.
If the sun was just *beginning* to rise and Sheriff Smith was already standing outside Fort Collins High School, the sun would be rising *over* the plains of eastern Colorado, not the Rocky Mountains.
This is not complex.
Neither is it relevant to the topic of the article, which is the point of my post to you.
But, if you would prefer to discuss the time of sunrise in Fort Collins, CO instead of balkanization of the USA, by all means, don't let me stand in your way.
To be technically correct (impossible for a journalism major) the sun doesn’t actually rise. The mountains rotate into position.