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"Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet....

There are approximately 1,736 known abandoned coal mines in the State of Colorado. In 2017 and 2018, on behalf of the State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining Reclamation Safety (DRMS), Tetra Tech, Inc. inspected 38 coal mine fire sites across Colorado. Site conditions included highly active fires, low activity and dormant fires and sites that were previously reclaimed and confirmed as dormant/extinguished. Several coal...

There are over 30 known underground coal fires in Colorado. Extinguishing or containing these fires has been challenging, primarily because delineating the subsurface extents of these fires is difficult. In this study, general characteristics of underground coal fires in Colorado are described. While the locations and the coal seams that are on fire differ, many common features are shared by the 30 plus known fires that are burning in the Colorado....