Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after a record-setting warm, dry summer. Small fires began to blow up into huge conflagrations. Towns in crisis scrambled to escape as fires bore down. The ...

HAUGAN, Mont. — A century ago, many of the trees now growing in Montana's mountains were just seedlings. Many were planted after 'The Great Burn of 1910,' when fires raged through three-million acres ...

As vast and fast wildfires continue to spread almost unprecedented destruction across America’s three Pacific states, fire scientists, meteorologists and journalists have begun comparing the ...

BALTIMORE, MD: FEB. 1, 1910 — A fire that started among bales of packing straw stored at the Eisenhauer, MacLean and Co. lumber dealers yards spread quickly, driven by high winds. Within a few minutes ...

The Fire of 1910, which lasted four hours, consumed 109 buildings and 60 residents lost their lives. In a heroic effort, more than 100 men worked during the fire to load courthouse records into wagons ...

A button hook. A belt’s metal latch. A comb. A diary containing the receipts and thoughts of a firefighter during his last days. These artifacts were recovered from the bodies of men who were killed ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Wednesday marks the 115th anniversary of The Great 1910 Fire, "The Big Burn", the largest forest fire in American history. The fire burned 3 million acres of timber in Washington, ...

This could describe any number of recent events, in places as disparate as Colorado, California, Canada and Hawai‘i. But this fire disaster happened over 110 years ago in the Northern Rocky Mountains ...

In 1910 a fire was discovered in a cargo hold of the American-Hawaiian Steamship company’s freighter Alaskan, docked at the Santa Fe pier in San Diego. It would take three weeks to extinguish the ...

NEW YORK CITY: APRIL 3, 1910 —At 3 A.M., Engine 33 turned out for an alarm of fire at 13th Street and Fourth Avenue in Manhattan. As the members of the company assembled on the apparatus floor of ...