Colorado wildfires are more extreme than ever. Here’s how state leaders are fighting back.
Colorado wildfires are becoming more extreme, and fire officials must seek new and better ways to prevent and fight them.
Colorado Has an Underground Fire That's Been Burning for Over 100 Years
An excavation and extinguishing plan aims to eliminate the century-old coal fire hazard that can reach temperatures of up to 1000 degrees.
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Colorado wildfires: No injuries, damage reported in fire northwest of Fort Collins
The fire burning near the Ted’s Place gas station at Colorado 14 and U.S. 287 caused the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office to issue mandatory evacuation orders for people living in the area on ...
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Researchers Launch Database To Track and Understand Wildfires
A coalition of research institutes from the southwestern U.S. has developed a new nationwide, open-access geodatabase that ...
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Highland Lakes wildfire in Colorado destroys 1 home, forces evacuation of 700 homes: See map
One house was destroyed and 700 others have been evacuated due to the Highland Lakes wildfire in Divide, Colorado, according to officials. Strong gusts of wind could make the fire grow.
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Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage
and they shift from … managing the fire to getting people out," Balch added. Take Colorado’s 2021 Marshall Fire. The blaze burned a relatively small area of suburban Boulder County north of ...
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Wildfires in the West Aren’t Just Getting Bigger. They’re Faster, Too.
Like last year’s deadly wildfire in Maui, for instance. Or the 2021 Marshall fire in Colorado. Dr. Balch lived through that one. The flames raced through drought-stricken neighborhoods near ...
Work begins to mitigate decades-old underground fire in Boulder County
Officials are hoping to mitigate the longstanding Marshall Coal Fire in Boulder County by mixing cool dirt with the ...
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Hundreds of homes evacuated near Colorado wildfire, official says
More than 700 homes were under evacuation orders near the town of Divide, Colorado, as a wildfire burned uncontained nearby, local law enforcement said Monday. The so-called Highland Lake Fire had ...
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Colorado wildfires are more extreme than ever. Here’s how state leaders are fighting back
Colorado is covered with the scars of countless wildfires. Some of them are just starting to heal, like the charred trees and ashy remains of homes burned by the Alexander Mountain fire that ...