Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after a record-setting warm, dry summer. Small fires began to blow up into huge conflagrations. Towns in crisis scrambled to escape as fires bore down. The ...
As vast and fast wildfires continue to spread almost unprecedented destruction across America’s three Pacific states, fire scientists, meteorologists and journalists have begun comparing the ...
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fire, the largest forest fire in American history. The fire burned 3 million acres of timber in northern Idaho and western Montana. 86 people lost their ...
CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) --A fire in the South Shore neighborhood that took the lives of two firefighters coincides with the 100th anniversary of the deadliest disaster in Chicago Fire Department history.
WALLACE, Idaho – Each year major wildfires in the West are fought like military battles, with firefighters deploying by ground and air, bombers dropping retardant on flames, and incident commanders ...
HAUGAN, Mont. — A century ago, many of the trees now growing in Montana's mountains were just seedlings. Many were planted after 'The Great Burn of 1910,' when fires raged through three-million acres ...
BALTIMORE, MD: FEB. 1, 1910 — A fire that started among bales of packing straw stored at the Eisenhauer, MacLean and Co. lumber dealers yards spread quickly, driven by high winds. Within a few minutes ...
If you are looking for a yawn-filled historical exhibit to attend and some mind-numbing facts to make your eyes glaze over, don't even think about attending the new exhibit at the Historical Museum at ...
The Fire of 1910, which lasted four hours, consumed 109 buildings and 60 residents lost their lives. In a heroic effort, more than 100 men worked during the fire to load courthouse records into wagons ...
On the evening of Nov. 13, 1910, a fire in West Middletown caused more than $50,000 damage in real estate and merchandise that was destroyed. Until that time, it was one of the biggest fires that the ...
BILLINGS – More than 1.1 million acres of land burned in Montana during the 2012 fire season, making it the worst fire season since 1910. However, the 2006 season was nearly as bad. The Northern ...
In 1910 a fire was discovered in a cargo hold of the American-Hawaiian Steamship company’s freighter Alaskan, docked at the Santa Fe pier in San Diego. It would take three weeks to extinguish the ...