Deadly Colorado blaze renews focus on underground coal fires
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.”
Nearly 140 years later two fires still smolder in the now-abandoned coal field near Boulder — the same area where a wildfire last month destroyed more than 1,000 homes and buildings and killed at least one person.
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‘Meant to be’: Couple weds in Northeast blizzard
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — In a wedding dress and snow boots, Sally Faulkner made her way up the front steps of the Providence Public Library to Adam Irujo, the man she plans on spending the rest of her life with.
It wasn’t your typical wedding ceremony, with strong wind gusts and piles of snow making it difficult for Faulkner’s parents to help her up the stairs, but it will certainly be memorable for the Lincoln couple.
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High carbon monoxide level injures 16 at Ohio hotel
MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) – Sixteen people, including at least six children, were injured after reports of people being found unconscious in the pool area of a Marysville, Ohio, hotel Saturday evening due to what fire officials said was a high level of carbon monoxide.
According to Marysville Police Chief Tony Brooks, the calls started to come in at approximately 5:30 p.m., starting with a 2-year-old girl losing consciousness at the Hampton Inn on Square Drive. Dispatchers then received several more calls reporting people passing out.
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