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DENVER -- Colorado will get nearly $10 million from the federal government to combat abandoned coal mine fires, officials announced this week. The decision c...

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A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state's first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.” Nearly 140 years&#x20...

Underground coal fires have long smoldered deep inside old mines in the Boulder, Colo., area and are a possible cause of a terrible blaze in December.

A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state’s first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.” Nearly 140 years later two fires still smolder in the now-abandoned coal field near…

A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and

DENVER (AP) _ A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened

Authorities investigating the cause of a wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000 buildings last month in Colorado are looking at the possibility that the blaze is linked to underground coal fires have long smoldered at old coal mines in the area. Authorities say the mines are just one of the possible causes they are looking into. Across the U.S. officials are tracking more than 200 underground mine fires in more than a dozen states, and those are just the ones documented. As climate change leads...

In 1883, a mining inspector deemed a fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field \

DENVER -- A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burn...