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Boulder area burning again

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 shrouded in smog as mountain Fourmile Fire still burns

BOULDER-- Roughly 1000 homes in the mountains above Boulder have been evacuated as a Labor Day blaze continues to burn. What is being called...

UPDATED: Ex-FEMA head Brown evacuated in Boulder wildfire

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.