- Forest Fires of 1910 - The Oregon Encyclopedia
In mid-August, a lightning storm ignited the largest and longest-burning of Oregon's 1910 fires on the Crater National Forest (now Rogue River -Siskiyou) More than fifteen large fires (over 1,000 acres) burned both east and south of Medford
- Great Fire of 1910 - Wikipedia
The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km 2, approximately the size of Connecticut) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with
- Americas Worst Wildfire: The Big Burn of 1910 - HistoryNet
In the summer of 1910, the largest wildfire in U S history ravaged the drought-stricken northern Rockies, burning millions of acres of forest and killing scores of people
- The 1933 Tillamook Burn, The Great Fire of 1910 and the . . .
Also known as “The Big Burn”, this fire burned over three million acres of forest in northern Idaho and western Montana during the hot, dry summer of 1910 In late July, a violent thunderstorm without rain hit the area, and by the next morning almost 1,000 fires were burning
- The forest fire that changed everything - oregonlive. com
It was the "Big Burn" that prompted the U S Forest Service, then only five years in existence, to adopt a policy to suppress each and every forest fire as soon as they began -- if possible, by
- 1910 Great Fires | CSKT | Division of Fish, Wildlife . . .
Out of those ignition points, the fires flared up repeatedly, and then finally exploded in the epic “Big Blowup” of August 20-21, 1910 As fire historian Stephen Pyne has written, the blowup “shattered vast patches of Washington, Oregon, and especially Idaho and Montana
- Mount Hood Forest Fires of 1910 - Mount Hood History
Mt Hood Forest Fires of 1910 – The summer of 1910 brought devastating forest fires to the Mount Hood area, with flames sweeping across Zigzag Mountain, Huckleberry Mountain, Wildcat Mountain, and the surrounding ridges
- The Great Fires of 1910 - Out There Outdoors
Multiple wildfires ravaged the drought-stricken forests in the region His actions during the “Big Blowup” (also called the Big Burn)—when hurricane-force winds inundated the region on Aug 20-21 and merged the fires—is what made Pulaski a genuine American hero
- Watch The Big Burn | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead
- The Big Burn of 1910 - Intermountain Histories
On the night of July 26, a lightning storm swept across the Bitterroots Thunder roared through the valleys, but there was no rainfall By the following morning, nearly a thousand fires had sprung up around the region, sparked by the lightning In the following weeks, even more blazes emerged
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