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The source of Colorado’s Marshall Fire is still being investigated, but history shows at least two blazes in the past 20 years could be blamed on coal mine fires that spread to the surface. Experts say coal mine fires are a growing threat around the globe.

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...

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

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 to burning volcanoes and the state's first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.”

DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much...

DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much...

DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much...

DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much...

DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much...