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This Topical Fire Research Report is in response to a legislative inquiry concerning the number of wildfires that are started each year in Colorado from the escape of agricultural and prescribed fires. For the purpose of this report, the term 'escape' is used to describe an agricultural controlled burn or a prescribed fire that spread beyond the control lines and became a 'hostile' fire.
11) Firehouse fun!
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Freddy Thresher and the rest of his first-grade class learn about fire safety and what firefighters do while on a field trip to the local firehouse.
14) Trial by fire
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The shrill sound of the firehouse horn pierces the hazy sleep of pastor and firefighter Nick Foster before he discovers that his church is ablaze. As the firefighters enter the church, Nick stumbles over a body and carries it out just before the building collapses around them. But as the smoldering embers glow in the gentle breeze of the following day, Nick realizes that whoever set the fire is out to destroy him.
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There are approximately 1,736 known abandoned coal mines in the State of Colorado. In 2017 and 2018, on behalf of the State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining Reclamation Safety (DRMS), Tetra Tech, Inc. inspected 38 coal mine fire sites across Colorado. Site conditions included highly active fires, low activity and dormant fires and sites that were previously reclaimed and confirmed as dormant/extinguished. Several coal...
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There are over 30 known underground coal fires in Colorado. Extinguishing or containing these fires has been challenging, primarily because delineating the subsurface extents of these fires is difficult. In this study, general characteristics of underground coal fires in Colorado are described. While the locations and the coal seams that are on fire differ, many common features are shared by the 30 plus known fires that are burning in the Colorado....