Members of the 220th Military Police (MP) Company, Colorado Army National Guard (COARNG), discuss their procedures for security access control during the Coal Seam Fires. Smoke from the fires can be seen long the mountain ridge in the background. The Coal Seam Fire started sometime in the mid-1970s as an underground fire burned along a rich vein of coal. Occassionally the fire breaks through to the surface. At this time it had burned 7,300 acres, damaged an estimated 40 structures, and caused the evacuation of 2,000 residents