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The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms the planet — sucking the moisture out of plants — suburbs grow in fire-prone areas and people continue to spark destructive blazes. “These fires are different from most of the fires we’ve been seeing across the West, in the sense that they’re grass fires and they’re occurring in the winter,” said Jonathan Overpeck, a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. ...

The Marshall Fire in Colorado has burned 1,200 acres forcing evacuations as several other grass fires have sparked in the area Thursday.

Category 3. here's some of the wind gusts we have seen. 115-mile-per-hour winds and the sheriff of boulder county said you can't fight these fires. they started out as grass fires and swept across the region. you cannot send firefighters or firefighting measures out to get this under control because it's moving so rapidly. now, there's one hotel that is in the superior, colorado, area, that's about 20, 25 miles to the northwest of denver. it has been leveled to the ground. and we're not finished yet. there's going to be a swift turnaround as far as the weather is concerned. i will mention, we ...

Declared a state of emergency for boulder county. i'm joined by our meteorologist, karen mcguiness. this is very scary, what's happening in colorado right now. truly historic wind storm, according to the national weather service. that fueled these fires. what's the latest from this region, and how weird is it to see something like this, this time of year? >> jim, it's been a tragedy, in a week that has already been tragic across colorado, with the mass shooting. what we're looking at here is not really a radar. there's no rain there. it's all downsloping winds and they're gusting at times to 1...

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