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1896 – Paris, Texas, the second of three fires that destroyed much of the town. 1897 – The Great Fire of Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, destroyed 80% of the town. 1898 – Great Fire of New Westminster, British Columbia; 1898 – Great fire of Park City, Utah; 1899 – El Polvorin Fire in Ponce, Puerto Rico, occurred on 25 January Street.
1988 – Yellowstone fires of 1988 largest, most expensive wildfire in the history of the National Park Service, at the world's first national park. 1991 – Oakland firestorm of 1991 , Oakland, California, U.S., killed 25 people and injured 150 others.
The town council arranged for cleanup of the strip mine dump, but council minutes do not describe the proposed procedure. DeKok surmises that the process—setting it on fire—was not specified because state law prohibited dump fires.
A fire killed 24 at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan's capital Baku. [285] March 23 – A fire in a large condominium complex in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, killed 13 and injured 28. [286] March 25 – 2018 Kemerovo fire. A fire killed 60 people, mostly children, at a mall in Kemerovo, Russia. [287] March 28 – 2018 Valencia ...
Centralia (/ s ɛ n ˈ t r eɪ l i ə / sen-TRAY-li-ə) is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 [8] because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
The 2018 Camp Fire in the town of Paradise scorched more than 150,000 acres and was the deadliest wildfire in California's history. Ninety-five percent of the town burned in the fire. Ninety-five ...
The death toll had climbed to five people, as the fast-moving wildfires continued to sweep across the LA area. The Palisades fire had burned more than 17,200 acres, while the Eaton fire has ...
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 ...