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Description
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| It had been an exceptionally dry spring and summer. The winter had normal snowfall amounts, however, the spring rains never came and June and July were remarkably dry as well. By mid summer humidity levels in the parched forests were in the single digits and low teens. The Big Burn started as numerous individual fires. The fires were about equally spilt between man made / caused from homesteading, mining, logging, and railroading activities, and natural causes such as lightning. At the time of the Big Blowup it was estimated that over 1,700 to 3,000 fires were burning in District One. Photo courtesy of the Pulaski Project. |
1910 Fire Overview
-Great Fire of 1910 & Smoke Cloud
-Copyright Wallace District Mining Museum
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| Great Fire of 1910 & Smoke Cloud |
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ~ When using this image, the credit information should be in the following format: Image courtesy of the Wallace District Mining Museum & the US Forest Service.