High winds are typically associated with winter storms, hurricanes or severe thunderstorms. But on the morning of Jan. 17, 1982, 43 years ago, a fierce windstorm hammered the Front Range of Colorado with gusts you might associate with a mountain top or within the eyewall of a hurricane.

More than 800 students at the University of Colorado Boulder are from the area of Los Angeles that’s been ravaged by wildfires in the last week.

The Palisades fire still burning in Los Angeles is an example of the kind of damage that can be caused by embers when high winds, dry fuels and suburban landscapes combine, just like the conditions leading up to the Marshall fire. So, what’s the risk of a similar wildfire breaking out here?

Fire officials in California asked them to come help fight the fires burning down entire neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area. Captain Jeremy Sones says that based on what he knows about the conditions out there they knew it was a possibility.

Former Colorado Buffalo and NFL linebacker and current Coloradan Chad Brown says his hometown in California, as well as his parents' home, were destroyed in the Eaton Fire, which continues to burn in the Los Angeles area.

Colorado is sending resources to help California crews fighting wildfires near Los Angeles, state and local officials said this week.

As wildfires ravage through California, killing at least 10 people and destroying neighborhoods, several firefighters across the Front Range are responding.

Fire crews and equipment from around the Front Range are now in California to help with the wildfires. The state also sent a specially designed plane.

With dangerous winds expected to return to the area today, CU Boulder ... California first started, the winds were gusting to 80, 90 or even 100 miles an hour— similar to that of a Category 2 or 3 hurricane. During the 2021 Marshall fire here in Colorado ...

As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas such as Boulder, Colorado and Lahaina, Hawaii, public water systems are often unable to meet the demand of fighting these large fires.

Dear students, staff and faculty, The devastating wildfires in Southern California are impacting hundreds of our CU Boulder community members. More than 800 students enrolled at CU Boulder are from areas of Los Angeles impacted by the fires, and many of us ...

The three areas impacted by the raging wildfires have one thing in common: They sit at the edges of mountain regions the Santa Ana winds whip through.