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South Canyon Fire: Colorado: Killed 14 firefighters. 1995: 12,354 acres (4,999 ha) Mount Vision Fire: California: 45 homes destroyed. 1996: 37,336 acres (15,109 ha) Miller's Reach Fire: Alaska: Most destructive wildfire in Alaska history. 344 structures destroyed. 1998: 506,000 acres (205,000 ha) 1998 Florida wildfires: Florida
The 2004 Alaska fire season was the worst wildfire season on record in the U.S. state of Alaska in terms of area burned. [2] Though the 1989 fire season recorded more fires, nearly 1,000, the 2004 season burned more than 6,600,000 acres (10,300 sq mi; 27,000 km2) in just 701 fires. [1] The largest of these fires was the Taylor Complex Fire. [3]
The Kake War was the destruction in February, 1869, of three semi-permanent winter villages and two forts near present-day Kake, Alaska, by the USS Saginaw.Prior to the conflict, two white trappers were killed by the Kake in retribution for the death of two Kake departing Sitka village by canoe.
An American tourist was killed in Zambia this week after she was trampled by an elephant while on a wildlife excursion.. Juliana Gle Tourneau, 64, was thrown from a vehicle in the city of ...
An 80-year-old American woman was killed during a wildlife safari in Zambia after an “aggressive” bull elephant “unexpectedly” charged at the vehicle, the tour operators said.
Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes.
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Rank Event Date Firefighter Fatalities Coordinates Reference 1 September 11 attacks: September 11, 2001: 343 1]: 2 Great Fire of 1910: August 22, 1910