{"id":11576,"date":"2026-02-09T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11576"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:17:23","slug":"mwnb-fast-moving-grassfires-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11576","title":{"rendered":"MWNB &#8211; Fast Moving Grassfires &#8211; New Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11577\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"882\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080907.jpg 882w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080907-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080907-768x589.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11578\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080943.jpg 737w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-080943-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11579\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081009.jpg 711w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11580\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081041.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-081041-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>Something wicked nearly returned to the Colorado Front Range as 2025 drew to a close. Records were being set throughout December, with temperatures reaching well into the 70s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And then the winds came.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have wind potential that could gust up to 100mph for some folks today,\u201d CBS News Colorado\u2019s Alex Lehnert told her viewers on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Colorado history, the National Weather Service declared a \u201cParticularly Dangerous Situation\u201d for Boulder County and other nearby communities. Standard red flag wildfire warnings were issued for a long swath that stretched north into Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>The extreme weather posed \u201ca significant threat to life and property in the event of a wildfire start,\u201d the Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s Department warned residents. \u201cNew or existing fire ignitions will have a high risk for very rapid fire spread.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0READ FULL STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MWNB-Fast-Moving-Grassfires.pdf\">MWNB &#8211; Fast Moving Grassfires<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something wicked nearly returned to the Colorado Front Range as 2025 drew to a close. Records were being set throughout December, with temperatures reaching well into the 70s. And then the winds came. \u201cWe have wind potential that could gust up to 100mph for some folks today,\u201d CBS News Colorado\u2019s Alex Lehnert told her viewers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}