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Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. This is a partial list of wildfires in the U.S. State of Colorado which have occurred periodically throughout its recorded history. [1] One of the most significant fires in United States history was The Big Blowup of 1910. [2]
Hartford Circus Fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. World War II: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus. He is eventually acquitted.
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [ 1 ]
• California’s Park Fire is bigger than the size of Los Angeles: The weeklong inferno, which started July 24 in Northern California, is now the fifth-largest wildfire in state history.It has ...
2021 – The Caldor Fire That burned Grizzly Flats, California and Omo Ranch, California. 2021 – A fire broke out in the town of El Cayo on the cay of Bonacca which is part of an island named Guanaja. The fire injured 4 residents and destroyed more than 200 structures. 2021 – 50+ MPH winds blew the West Wind Fire into Denton, Montana ...
Real time maps from California Fire Department show how the blaze has spread to over 3,000 acres of land – an area twice the size of Central Park Malibu fire map: 3,000 acres of California ...
Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2002). Verge, Arthur C. “The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles.” The Pacific Historical Review 63#3 (1994): 289–314. online; Verge, Arthur C. "World War II" in A Companion to California History ed. by William Deverell and David Igler.