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    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...
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    Ed Pulaski (category American people of Polish descent)
    known as the "Great Idaho Fire," the "Great Fire of 1910" or the "Big Blowup." It had been unusually dry in 1910 and forest fires were rampant across the...
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  • Great Fire or The Great Fire may refer to: Great Fire of Rome (64 A.D.) Great Fire of North Walsham (1605) 1615 Great Fire of Wymondham Great fire of...
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  • The National Fire Protection Association lists Silverton as the location of the Devil's Broom fire, also known as the Great Fire of 1910. 47°29′35″N 115°57′20″W...
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    Boundary Fire was a wildfire in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. First reported in the evening of August 23, 2018, the fire was located...
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  • 1949 – The great forest fire of 1949 in the Landes Forest, wildfire, 256,000 acres (1,040 km2) lost, 82 people killed. 1949 – Mann Gulch fire 1953 – Rattlesnake...
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  • 1871 in Wisconsin Great Hinckley Fire of 1894 Great Fire of 1910 in Washington, Idaho, and Montana Cloquet fire "The Great Fire of 1894". Hinckley Online...
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    The Great Spokane Fire—known locally as The Great Fire—was a major fire which affected downtown Spokane, Washington (called "Spokane Falls" at the time)...
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    fire of 1910 Cloquet fire of 1918 Thumb Fire of 1881 (see also List of Michigan wildfires) Biondich, S. (June 9, 2010). "The Great Peshtigo Fire". Shepherd...
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    Great Fire of 1910, which burned about three million acres (12,000 km2) and helped shape the United States Forest Service. The book describes some of...
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    Edward Pulaski Tunnel and Placer Creek Escape Route (category 1910 fires in the United States)
    firefighter Edward Pulaski in the Great Fire of 1910 to save the lives of himself and most of his crew. The sites are located south of Wallace, Idaho in the Idaho...
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  • February 11. January 12 – Great January Comet of 1910 first observed (perihelion: January 17). January 21 – The Great Flood of Paris begins when the Seine...
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    The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least 200...
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  • Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910. In the 1960s, policies governing wildfire suppression changed due to ecological studies that recognized fire...
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    The Great Salem fire of June 25, 1914, destroyed 1,376 buildings and made over 18,000 people homeless or jobless in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. It was...
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  • This is a list of notable wildfires. 2017 Knysna fires, South Africa 2021 Algeria wildfires 2021 Table Mountain fire, South Africa 2022 Moroccan wildfires...
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  • was known for his heroism in saving most of his crew during the Great Fire of 1910 by sheltering in an abandoned mine. He also invented the firefighting...
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    Retrieved January 23, 2019. Pyne, Stephen J. (2008). Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company...
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    and State Forestry organizations operated fire lookout towers on their own accord. The Great Fire of 1910, also known as the Big Blowup, burned 3,000...
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  • 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013. Inferno "Inferno > English > Historical Fires > 1910 Fire Season". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-07-01...
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    Coeur d'Alene Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Idaho)
    densely forested with lodgepole pine generated from the Great Fire of 1910. Thirty miles (48 km) of trails provide good hiking opportunities in this roadless...
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    associated mills stimulated growth of the town, as did the Railway. In 1910, a forest fire known as the Great Fire of 1910, originating in northern Minnesota...
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  • Stephen J. Pyne (category University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    2000) Fire: A Brief History (University of Washington Press and British Museum, 2001) Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (New York:...
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    Gifford Pinchot (category Republican Party governors of Pennsylvania)
    western states (all of Montana, much of Idaho, Washington, and a corner of South Dakota).[3] One year after the Great Fire of 1910, the religious Greeley...
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    Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 in California and especially the Great Fire of 1910 in Montana and Idaho contributed to the philosophy that fire was a danger...
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    Much of the county was burned in the Great Fire of 1910, including parts of Wallace. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 2,635...
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    The Great Fire of 1901 was a conflagration that occurred in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3, 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history...
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    injured. The fire killed more professional wildland firefighters in the U.S. than any other in the 103 years between the Great Fire of 1910 and the Yarnell...
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  • contained on August 4, 2021. The PF Fire was first reported on July 27, 2021 at around 1:30 pm MST. The cause of the fire is believed to be due to a coal...
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    years. The Bandit War in Texas was part of the Border War. From the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the United States Army was stationed in...
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