BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A fire that has been burning for more than a century in Boulder County has been extinguished. Underneath the present-day Marshall Mesa trailhead lies one of 14,000 ...

BOULDER, Colo. — When the City of Boulder began buying up land in the 1970s in an area of long-abandoned coal mines, everyone acknowledged that below the surface, a fire had been slowly burning for a ...

Underground coal fires are serious trouble. Because coal deposits contain oxygen, they can keep burning even when there is no air present. This phenomenon is at play in Utah’s Lila Canyon mine where ...

The State of Colorado is rolling out plans to extinguish an underground coal fire that has been burning for more than 50 years near Boulder, At a cost of $1 million, the state plans to dig a pit to ...

BUTLER TWP., Pa. — Once we hiked out to the fire in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, and saw how much smoke was coming out of the ground, we immediately wondered how much the state government knows ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) --Investigators with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office are considering a number of possible causes of the Marshall Fire, a grass fire which was propelled by 100-mph ...

As the smell of sagebrush gives way to the acrid smell of burning coal, smoke begins to rise from the scorched ground. “Once you smell it, you never forget it,” Campbell County Fire Division Chief ...