Fire

Modern homes burn up to 8 times faster than holder homes, according to a new study from Underwriter Laboratories. This means you have only 3 minutes to escape. "For us, where our time periods were you know, they used to back in the day talk about 20 minutes, it's more like in the 5 to 6 minue range (now)," says Kinny Tasker, South Metro Fire Training Lieutenant...

Firefighters responded to a reported train leaking fuel near S. Lemay Avenue and Riverside Avenue in Fort Collins on Tuesday at approximately 4:43 p.m. When crews arrived, they found one train leaking a large amount of diesel fuel from one of its 2,600 gallon tanks...

A fire broke out along East 16th Street and Balsam Avenue in East Greeley on Sunday, destroying a barn, siding and a woodpile. The blaze burned up to 10 acres.

The Larimer County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of very high fire danger right now. Larimer County is experiencing higher temperatures and lower humidity than normal with no significant changes in the immediate weather forecast...

A worker's clothes caught fire after he lit a cigarette at an auto body shop in Denver on Sunday morning. Nearby workers were siphoning gas from a vehicle into a bucket at Saul's Automotive when the man lit the cigarette, confirms the Denver Fire Department...

Firefighters in Weld County are currently battling a grass fire that has grown immensely over the last two hours and continues to grow.

Crews are battling a 19-acre wildfire near the Crystal Lakes area. Evacuation notifications were sent to 136 homes in the area because of the “Beartrap Fire”.

An elementary school teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is allowed to keep his job after being late for work 111 times over a period of 2 years. Roosevelt Elementary School's attempt to fire Arnold Anderson, a 15-year school veteran, from his $90,000-a-year job was rejected by an arbitrator on August 19, saying he was entitled to "progressive discipline...

2015 has been a year free from the natural disasters that plagued Northern Colorado in the preceding years. Thankfully! However, firefighters had to extinguish a fire at Bobcat Ridge.

Two Fort Collins police officers & an off-duty Poudre Fire Authority firefighter helped save a restaurant from burning down while they were having lunch there.

A huge gas line fire can be seen for miles in Weld County. Details are sketchy at best and we'll update this story are more details come in.

Two people suffered minor injuries after a boat burst into flames at Boyd Lake State Park on Friday. We found a video of the fire from Loveland Fire Rescue Authority.