Seam Fire News Today

An underground fire from a historic coal mine in the upper North Fork Valley caused a wildfire this week that has burned several acres above the town of Somerset.

Not a good legacy

Call it trial-by-fire, straight from the frying pan into the fire — whatever clever fire cliché you prefer — but there wasn’t a lot of transition time when Chris Bornholdt became Garfield County’s emergency manager…

The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west

The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west

The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west

Coal seam fires have seen more attention in Colorado, in part because one is a suspected cause of the destructive Marshall Fire in the Boulder area in December. According to The Colorado Sun, Colorado...

The state of Colorado could receive up to $150 million over 15 years to do work dealing with fires and other threats at abandoned coal mines, meaning a big boost

“We have to look at all the possible ignition sources,” said Brenda Rice, a wildfire investigator who spent 26 years with the U.S. Forest Service.

A 2005 wildfire was sparked by an underground coal fire that was “an imminent hazard to humans” and a long-term danger.