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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 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 extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British ...
Smoke around the Treasure Valley and across the Pacific Northwest is coming from multiple fires. These sources show where.
The Moose Fire, the largest in Idaho, has spread to 40,388 acres and is only 15% contained, according to a Thursday news release. The cause of the fire remains undetermined, and the expected ...
On August 20, 1910, Pulaski was credited with saving all but five of his 45-man crew during what is known as the "Great Idaho Fire," the "Great Fire of 1910" or the "Big Blowup." [ 2 ] It had been unusually dry in 1910 and forest fires were rampant across the northern Rockies .
The National Interagency Fire Center shows 17 fires burning in the Gem State.
To work fires, the men, organized into squads of eight to fifteen, were stationed at six strategic points, also known as "spike camps": Seeley Lake, Big Prairie, and Ninemile in Montana; Moose Creek and McCall in Idaho; and Redwood Ranger Station in southwestern Oregon at the edge of Cave Junction. The men worked from other spike camps as well ...
William Howard went to the north-central Idaho town of Juliaetta on Thursday to help a friend after a lightning-sparked wildfire began tearing through the friend's property, using barrels of water ...
The Beaver Creek Fire was a forest fire that began on August 7, 2013 after a lightning strike [2] in an area twelve miles northeast of Fairfield, Idaho [3] and northwest of Hailey, Idaho [4] in Sawtooth National Forest. The fire burned through pine trees, [5] sagebrush, timber in the understory, grass, and various riparian areas. [4]