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The Meridian Boundary Fire burned 8,586 acres near Grayling, Michigan in 2010.. The U.S. state of Michigan has been the site of several major wildfires.The worst of these were in the lumbering era of the late-1800s when lumbering practices permitted the buildup of large slash piles and altered forest growth patterns which may have contributed to size of the wildfires.
1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [ 6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland ), on March 4, killed 175. 1909 – Flores Theater fire, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 15, killed 250.
1937 – Blackwater fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, killed 15 firefighters on August 21. 1939 – Black Friday bushfires in Australia. 71 people killed. 1949 – The great forest fire of 1949 in the Landes Forest, wildfire, 256,000 acres (1,040 km 2) lost, 82 people killed. 1949 – Mann Gulch fire.
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One person was killed after an enormous fire Monday night at a suburban Detroit warehouse, known to stock combustible materials, ignited explosions, shook homes and rained down debris as far as a ...
In Colorado, the climate has warmed by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 30 years and the top 10 biggest fires in the state’s history have all taken place since 2002.
1866 – Great Portland Fire of 1866, Maine, destroyed the commercial district and left 10,000 homeless. 1866 – Great Fire of Quebec City, Quebec, razed an entire faubourg and left 20,000 homeless. 1868 – Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Arson destroyed 107 houses and 146 other buildings; 4 deaths.
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