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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
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...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
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....
17) Fire! Fire!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Views fire fighters fighting fires in the city, in the country, in the forest, and on the waterfront.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Much of Colorado is considered a high hazard fire environment and possesses all the ingredients necessary to support large, intense, and uncontrollable wildfires. Our ability to live more safely in this fire environment greatly depends upon our use of "pre-fire activities." These are steps taken before a wildfire occurs which improve the survivability of people and homes.