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The St. Louis Fire of 1849 was a devastating fire that occurred on May 17, 1849 and destroyed a significant part of St. Louis, Missouri and many of the steamboats using the Mississippi River and Missouri River. [1] Captain Thomas B. Targee was killed while trying to blast a fire break. [1] Targee Street was named for him.
A coal seam-fueled eternal flame in Australia known as "Burning Mountain" is claimed to be the world's longest burning fire, at 6,000 years old. [42] A coal mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. A coal field fire in Jharia, Jharkhand, India, is known to have been burning for almost a century.
The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate.
A series of fires across the state, the most severe of which was the Port Huron fire. The combined Michigan fires killed over 200 people and burned about 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire. The Great Michigan Fire: 8 October 1871 Wisconsin 1,500–2,500/? Deadliest wildfire in world history.
The Lineage cold storage warehouse fire in Finley was fully extinguished as of June 20, nearly two months after it began. This an aerial view of the 525,000-square-foot building after the fire.
Bernadine “Birdie” Pruessner, 39, was found dead after the fire, along with her four children: 2-year-old Millie, 6-year-old Jackson and 9-year-old twin girls Ellie and Ivy in a Missouri fire.
Patty Prewitt was serving a life sentence for the 1984 murder of her husband in Holden, Missouri Missouri’s longest-serving female prisoner, serving life for murdering her husband, is released ...
Rank Name Country Area burned (ha) Deaths Ref. 1 2023–2024 Australian bushfire season Australia 144,537,200 10 [1]2 2024 South American wildfires Brazil Bolivia Chile