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Boulder area burning again

By | 10.29.10 | 3:19 pm

Boulder’s on fire again. Well not quite, but very close. Some Boulder neighborhoods have already been issued evacuation orders as the Dome Fire between Boulder and Sunshine Canyon has spread to more than 125 acres.

The fire…

Boulder shrouded in smog as mountain Fourmile Fire still burns

By | 09.07.10 | 8:56 am

BOULDER– Roughly 1000 homes in the mountains above Boulder have been evacuated as a Labor Day blaze continues to burn. What is being called the Fourmile Fire reportedly started in Emerson Gulch before strong winds Monday whipped the flames to…

UPDATED: Ex-FEMA head Brown evacuated in Boulder wildfire

By | 01.08.09 | 9:06 am

Hurricane Katrina victims take note. Michael Brown is safe.

A series of wind-whipped wildfires north of Boulder, Colo., have forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 residents — among them vilified ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown.

UPDATE 1/8/09: Hear Brown recount his harrowing fire evacuation and couch-surfing adventure while a wildfire refugee on Newsradio 850 KOA.

UPDATE 1/9/09: Read Colorado Media Matters’ coverage of the Newsradio KOA 850 interview with Michael Brown.