Great Fire of 1910

Great Fire of 1910

The Great Fire of 1910 (also known as the Big Blowup and the Big Burn) was a wildfire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, over two days (August 20 and August 21), and killed 87 people. [Egan, Timothy. - "Ideas & Trends; Why Foresters Prefer to Fight Fire With Fire". - "New York Times". - August 20, 2000] It is believed to be the largest fire in recorded U.S. history. [Petersen, Jim. - "The West is Burning Up!": - [http://www.idahoforests.org/fires.htm "The 1910 Fire"] . - "Evergreen Magazine". (c/o Idaho Forest Products Commission) - Winter Edition 1994-1995]

Smoke from the fire drifted mi to km|700 southeast to Denver, Colorado.Maclean, Norman (1992). - "USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky". - "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories". - New York, New York: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster). - p.153. - ISBN 0671776975] The ash fallout caused the street lamps to be turned on in the middle of the afternoon in Missoula, Montana.

References

Further reading

*Cohen, Steve, and Donald C. Miller, (1978). - "The Big Burn: The Northwest's Forest Fire of 1910". - Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. - OCLC search link|4493723
*Pyne, Stephen J., (2008). - "Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910". - Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company. - ISBN 0878425446
*Spencer, Betty Goodwin, (1956). - "The Big Blowup". - Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers. - OCLC search link|2994642

External links

* [http://www.missoulian.com/specials/1910/index.html "The Big Burn of 1910"] . - "Missoulian"


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