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The Park Fire was a massive wildfire in Northern California 's Butte and Tehama counties. It ignited on July 24, 2024 in an alleged act of arson in the city of Chico 's Bidwell Park in Butte County. Defying initial fire suppression efforts, the Park Fire grew rapidly over the following days, burning into the Ishi Wilderness and the Lassen ...
47 acres (19 ha) Impacts. Deaths. 29. Non-fatal injuries. 150+ [1] Map. Location of Fire in Los Angeles. The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on October 3, 1933, in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire.
The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, [1] were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fires claimed at least 14 lives, [5][6] injured 190, [7] and is one of the ...
Formal fire record-keeping in Yellowstone began in 1931, when the Heart Lake Fire burned 18,000 acres (73 km 2). Despite its small extent, it was the largest fire in the period from when the park was created until 1988. Research indicates that only two or three large fires occur on the Yellowstone Plateau every 1,000 years.
Tubbs Fire. The Tubbs Fire was a wildfire in Northern California during October 2017. At the time, the Tubbs Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California history, [7][1] burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, inflicting its greatest losses in the city of Santa Rosa. Its destructiveness was surpassed only a year later by the ...
A 62-year-old woman was killed in the fire. [2] [5] The High Park fire burned over 87,284 acres (136.381 sq mi; 353.23 km 2), at the time it was the second-largest fire in recorded Colorado history by area burned. It is currently the sixth-largest fire in recorded Colorado history by area burned. [6]
Ute Park Fire. Location of fire in New Mexico. The Ute Park Fire was a wildfire one mile east of Ute Park, New Mexico in the United States. The fire started on May 31, 2018. The cause remains under investigation. The fire burned a total of 36,740 acres (149 km 2) and was contained on June 19, 2018. It threatened the communities of Cimarron and ...
On July 22, 2024, at 7:00 pm MDT, Parks Canada reported a wildfire northeast of the town of Jasper. Shortly after, a second wildfire was reported south of the townsite. At 8:35 pm, the Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park issued 'preventive' evacuation alerts. [6] By 10:00 pm, an evacuation order was issued for the entire park, and ...