Tag: Wildfires

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.

Some fairly simple and nonintrusive regulation might reduce the loss from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface zone if the findings of research released today...

There is a smoky haze covering most of the Western Slope. Fires in California, Utah and west of the Divide in Colorado have settled...

At a Senate hearing yesterday Sen. Ken Salazar (R-CO) got tough with the Bush Administration about not spending enough money to deal with bark...