Homeowners across the state. We looked out the window and the fire was headed towards her house very fast. The above average temperatures mix with recordbreaking winds fueling grass fires and dangerously close to homes. { the high fire danger, tapping our news tonight at 10 00. Good evening and things for joining us, and tammy be joe. Thank you get her show. We seem to fires big out today at alone in Northern Colorado by their wyoming border. In this one in fort carson Training Range in El Paso County. Its grown to 1200 acres tonight as the power crews worked to get it under control. Luckily, no Court Structures are threatened by the fire. Fox 31 sanders kent erdahl shows us how you can protect your property from these fires. The advice for fire danger right now is about the same that you will hear during the summer. That is how warm and windy these conditions have really been. That means keeping track of those native grasses and any kind of debris, leaves or other thing second catch fire, of them. Its a lesson homeowners not too far from here got yesterday. It didnt take long for this grass fire and superior to catch a neighborhoods attention. It is scary. It was coming down so fast. Thanks to a welltrained fence and bike pack, today she doesnt see black, she sees a silver lining. Now that it is burnt down so low it is not a big danger in the summertime. Was been a lot of resources to get the fire to not go directly at those houses john pollock says a Quick Response how to keep the fires from homes but the warm and windy weather in february should serve as a reminder for everyone. There is no no such thing as a fire season anymore because when things dry out you can get not long ago a fire also came knocking on this north metro fire station. This was a couple of weeks ago and it burned through here on a nice windy day. If you find yourself in a similar situation the advice is simple. Usually what homeowners are concerned with is what is going on in their yard. If you see this beyond her yard, call for help. If a homeowner when out into a field with a grasses on fire, they can really put themselves in danger. The good news is we are expected to get somewhat of a break in the weather in the next coming weeks. By next weekend we are told it will be warm once again so if you have ten tomorrow, get out and clean up your yard. Kent erdahl, fox 31 denver. New tonight, for kids in El Paso County are in the hospital after dogs attacked them. It happened in russia, which is about 45 minutes east of the Sheriffs Department tells us a woman was checking on a property for her employer. The car when she began hearing screams. That is when she found three great danes had attacked for of her five kids. The children suffered bites to their head and torso,w3 three of them are in surgery tonight. The Humane Society is responding i will decide if the owner of the dogs will face any charges. More bad news tonight if you plan to head west on i 70. The interstate in Glenwood Canyon is still not safe enough to reopen. Cdot sharing this new picture today, as crews worked to bring down more of the unstable rocks dislodge by mondays rock fight. There is a possibility one lane of highly could reopen later tomorrow, but if that happens, you should still expect major delays of one hour or more. There are major developments in the president ial election tonight. Republican candidate jeb bush is dropping out of the race to become the next commander in chief. His decision coming after todays primary in South Carolina. Meanwhile, democrats had a crucial contest in nevada. The new information tonight. Democrats go headtohead in nevada and republicans fight it out in South Carolina. Donald trump becomes the first candidate to win backtoback races this political season. Taking the top spot in New Hampshire and now in South Carolina. There is nothing easy about you. Its tough, its nasty, its mean, its vicious, its beautiful. When you win, it is beautiful. Still fighting of the top of the pack as the winner of that i will caucuses, he is the only candidate to be trump so far. Senator marco rubio making a strong showing in South Carolina on the hills of two major endorsements from governor nikki haley and senator tim scott. Jeb bush making the decision to results. The right kind of leadership that we all these work to make sure happens, americas best days are ahead. Clinton, when in the nevada i am so thrilled and so grateful to all of my supporters out there senator Bernie Sanders congratulated clinton on his victory to close race and said hes looking forward to the future contest. It is clear to me and i think most observers that the wind is at our backs. On tuesday, the Republican Caucus in nevada one of{ democrats are here on saturday. In columbia, South Carolina, caroline shively, fox 31 news. As post caucus celebrations wind on in nevada, president bill clinton has already arrived here in colorado. Earlier this evening he spoke to all large crowd at the Pueblo Convention center. Tomorrow afternoon, he will head to Colorado Springs to speak at colorado college. This is the first time president clinton has campaigned in colorado this election cycle and it comes on the heels of his daughter, chelseas Campaign Stops in denver earlier this week. Another Drain Campaign season. Improving your skiing skills. Coming up next, a ski clinic that is just for the ladies. Jennifer broome has the details as they explore colorado. And a beautiful quince event in nature. What makes this waterfall look like it is on fire. Cool looking picture there. While temperatures of cold off as well over the last few hours a cold front moves through and it kicked up the wins a bit. Result tomorrow we see sorry guys, this one is just for the gals. Ladies if youve been wanting to learn to ski or how to take your skills up a notch, you have one more day to take advantage of hosting the clinic this weekend. Shows us what it is all about as we explore coloradoq. Men. We have our lovely womens curves and that affects how we are able to edge until tarskis to carve turns. It means women generally ski so little wider stance allows us to have better balance and more turning ability. Envision yourself scheme like World Champion skiers like lindsay von mikayla shifrin. It allows us to get the skis on edge much earlier, much quicker. For more balanced stance throughout a highspeed turn. Breckenridge has camps and clinics specifically for women. Its allinclusive. Its really supportive group and fun environment to learn and herod i get to see how other women ski and i{ get to emulate that. Breckenridge ski instructor, andrea riley, has a group do a front of the turns. The{ have to be adaptable to turning on whatever train you happen to be on at that moment. It helps take you from intermediate train to expert train. This wing, touch turn drill forces you to get out of your comfort zone and find a different rhythm. I havent quite got it yet. Outriggers just looked on as we ski and a lower stance with polls extended out to the side and Constant Contact with the snow. Considered just leaning we are taking an active interest in angling and tilting her skis on the snow so it gives us really good sport lowing unit. Quick ride back up the chairlift and we get to meet ski patrol or hunter and to avalanche rescue dogs. Boudreaux is two and a half, learning from nine yearold tally. Still has a lot of spunk. Heres a tip for getting back into your skis. Binding. Womens clinics arent just about skiing. Woman laugh more and talk more the men. You also get to ski in to watch video analysis of your turn. I can tell you until blue in the face what youre doing on your skis but until you see it, you might not really realize it. Its fun training to help you look like a rockstar on the slopes and pick up some tricks happy tackle any train. Them pull plan, turn and breathe out. And there you have the zen of skiing. Jennifer broome, fox 31 denver. If you cant make that event, breckenridge has women and wine on wednesday through march 2. For data more info, check out our website kdvr. Com. A waterfall of fire. Its a beautiful site at we will show you what causes it. In a live look outside and we Mark Monstrola will let us know beautiful images out of Yosemite National park. A waterfall, creating the appearance of fire. This is the horse tell waterfall. Every two years the sunset at a certain time and an angle that illuminates this waterfall, making it look like a fire now pinpoint weather with the city beautifully lit up this evening and it was a gorgeous day. Temperatures were back in the 60s for the fourth straight day that all good things must come to an end and we see it slowly deteriorate over the next few days. We will have cooler air spelling in with the cold shot that shot through earlier this evening. It is about 10 degrees warmer downtown than what we see at the airport. We are 43 degrees in the city and it was breezy or than it was earlier today. In the planes and Higher Elevations windsor higher and we will get to those in just a bit. We started off this morning with 27 degrees and 62 now we are back down into the 30s and low 40s. Fort morgan at 42 degrees and m parker at 38 degrees. In the high country we are backing down into the teens and day around the ski area. We had plenty of sunshine and warmth and it got a little breezy. We are quiet downtown and outside of a couple of passing clouds i think we keep it that the cold front shot through earlier this afternoon but we did get a little rainfall over eastern part of the states and a few flakes in the high country that didnt accumulate to anything. We{ will stay quiet through the overnight. With the northwesterly push behind the front that keeps temperatures much cooler than what we saw for daytime heist today. More on that momentarily, too. A little breezy across northeastern parts of the state and breezy downtown to. Per hour. I think well keep it this way at least to the overnight and into tomorrow morning. Once we get to tomorrow afternoon we start to see things settle down. The front gets further and further away and as it does, skies will stay quiet. { we wake up tomorrow morning and as we get through tomorrow afternoon it will be cooler but sunshine will be plenty full over head. A great february afternoon on the way but temperatures back down 1015 degrees and will cool down even more when the next storm system comes through which happens monday night into tuesday morning. The cold front right now while off the Pacific Coast but once it arrives scattered rainfall maybe monday evening and behind that front it will transition into light snow fall for tuesday morning. The good news is it wont last long so accumulations will stay minimal. 30 degrees overnight tonight for 20s across the high country. Thirtys and 20s in the planes. Fortys and 50s for the highs across the Eastern Plains and up and down i 25 corridor it is still a beautiful afternoon in the upper elevations. They are back to the 40s and 50s as well. Breezy at times tonight and plenty of sunshine on tap for us tomorrow afternoon. Daytime highs 1015 degrees cooler but still the high at 50 degrees is above the average for this time of year. Once the next system comes in will watch the scattered light rain transition into snow and no major accumulation and afterword, right back at it was sunshine sticking around for the weekend and daytime highs in the 50s and near 60s. The hockey game will be beautiful for the stadium thanks mark. Speaking of hockey, we will update you on the avalanche. And the battle was asleep to see. Game with what is seen tonight at 20 and blake. Something cholera has never seen. Hockey at coors field. Its going to be like this for a week. This evening belonged to college. It was a little over 35,000 on hand as the tenth ranked denver pioneers{ faced off against colorado college. How cool is that. Check out tigers goalie jacob nehama. Office said he does a wraparound into nothing. Tigers cut it to one and then to penalties. W3 debt heine and scores and then Dylan Gambrell how does he get this in. What an angle. The battle on blake goes to du. Final score 41. It wasnt the usual intensity that you feel from the fans. It was more of a, i dont know what the proper terminology is, but it felt more like a big event, like a super bowl. We went out for the first. And you look up an easy 35,000 people and it was such a special experience. I can say it was an honor to where the denver jersey tonight. It was incredible. I do know there were that many pioneer jerseys in denver. We are not them with the pioneers. In la crosse, secondrate du{ taking on number three duke and georgia. It was a great came from the start and the defending champs did get to key goals late for the 1412 victory. Patrick roy an avalanche will today. Tonight they were at m and ten and try to stay on top and the wildcard. Colorado down early but no problem. John mitchell finishes it off and we are tied. In the second it was the same score. Tyson barrie finishing it off third. It was 31 avalanche with time winding down. To College Basketball and right now experts are saying the colorado buffs are tournament team. 810c. Winds keep them there but losses dont make things easy for the committee. Tonight, colorado visiting ucla, hoping to get back to the winning ways. Week. Ucla and prince ellie were taking over. The jumper goes{ in right now in the second half. The team trails 5835. Ouch. In amount west, colorado stay in wyoming have struggled the season. The rams host in the cowboys this afternoon in wyomings josh adams went off at moby arena. Thirtyseven points, eight rebounds and six assists. Cowboys ticket 8466. Air force has struggled in conference play the season but they were on point today. Hosting the Second Best Team in the Mountain West and new mexico how to lead late, but hating graham scores here and knows how to take it inside and outside. A fadeaway jumper and the linebacker von miller continues to make the rounds and watch{ him and his aggies against 14th ranked kentucky do some work. Tie game. Tyler davis for the buzzer and von miller left it. It looks like he just won the super bowl. Hes that chat it. Good to be von miller. Q i feel like hes on a mission to see how many places he can hit. I swear he has been on latenight shows and alan. He has to spread the wealth a little bit. Tammy on ellen. How will they they keep the ice frozen out there. I think the cooldown will help this week and in temperatures drop down to 50 tomorrow with partly sunny skies. 30 percent`caance of rain on off a bit transitioning rain into snow. No major accumulations expected and from there, sunshine and warmth come back into beautiful second half of the week. Thanks for joining us tonight at 10 00 everyone. Tomorrow at 5 00. Have a good evening when you get one gig internet from centurylink and prism tv and theyre both delivered on a superfast Fiber Network directly to your home, its amazing. It is amazing, but do you think his delivery was a little flat on that one . Just yeah. 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