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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 ...
After the fire in the surrounding forest died down, Pulaski and his crew followed Placer Creek to safety in Wallace. [2] [3] [5] [7] In just two days, the Great Fire of 1910 consumed 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha) of forest. The six men lost in or near Pulaski's tunnel were among 78 firefighters killed by the fire.
The Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial, near Wallace, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]It consists of two cobblestone monuments in the Nine Mile Cemetery, erected in 1921 by the United States Forest Service, with associated graves of firefighters who died in forest fires in 1910.
Smoke around the Treasure Valley and across the Pacific Northwest is coming from multiple fires. These sources show where.
2024 Idaho wildfires View of smoke from the Nellie Fire on August 13, 2024. The 2024 Idaho wildfire season was a series of notable wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Idaho during 2024.
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] The fire ...
Central Idaho fires continue to burn in Salmon-Challis National Forest. The Moose Fire, the largest in Idaho, has spread to 40,388 acres and is only 15% contained, according to a Thursday news ...
Wildfire in the forest as photographed on August 6, 2000. Bitterroot National Forest comprises 1.587 million acres (6,423 km 2) in west-central Montana and eastern Idaho of the United States. It is located primarily in Ravalli County, Montana (70.26% of the forest), but also has acreage in Idaho County, Idaho (29.24%), and Missoula County ...