Chesterfield Fire and EMS says residents may see smoke in the Winterpock area due to a coal refuse fire. “Virginia Energy’s ...

Crews are once again working to extinguish a coal ... fire should be out by the end of the week, according to officials with Virginia Energy, at a cost of $170,000. The coals refuse pile in ...

A contractor with experience in extinguishing coal refuse fires, AJS Excavation Incorporated, was brought in to remove the burning areas of the pile in phases, then spread the fire out and spray ...

The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS) announced Phase One of the Corley Mine Surface Burn ...

Wiegert said a fire in the coal piles cannot be extinguished by spraying water on it. Instead, he said the burning coal must be moved around until it stops smoldering.

Two contract workers who died after sinking into a 60-foot coal pile in Pueblo last month had ... In 2007, five painters were killed in a tunnel fire at an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant south ...

Rescuers found the bodies of the two men buried beneath about 60 feet of coal in the towering pile at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, said Erik Duran, spokesman for the Pueblo Fire ...

An odor in an area of Chesterfield County has been traced to a "smoldering coal refuse pile due to historic mining in that area." The county fire and emergency services department in a statement ...

of coal in the towering pile at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, said Erik Duran, spokesman for the Pueblo Fire Department. Witnesses said the workers were standing about 30 feet (9 ...