. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. 79 change of wind may check a lire, or may turn it off in a new direction and perhaps threaten the lives of the men at work by driving it suddenly down upon them. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. When all the conditions are favorable, forest fires sometimes reach gigantic proportions. A few such fires have attained liistoric importance. One of these is the Miramichi hre of 1S25. It began its greatest. Fig. 74.—a forest tire on the Yukon River, Alaska. Bow of a canoe to tlie left. destruction about 1 o'clock in the afternoon of Oct
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. 79 change of wind may check a lire, or may turn it off in a new direction and perhaps threaten the lives of the men at work by driving it suddenly down upon them. HISTORIC FOREST FIRES. When all the conditions are favorable, forest fires sometimes reach gigantic proportions. A few such fires have attained liistoric importance. One of these is the Miramichi hre of 1S25. It began its greatest. Fig. 74.—a forest tire on the Yukon River, Alaska. Bow of a canoe to tlie left. destruction about 1 o'clock in the afternoon of October 7 of that year, at a place about GO miles above the town of Newcastle, on the Miramichi Iviver, in Xew Bruns- wick. Before 10 o'clock at night it was 20 miles below Newcastle. In nine hours it had destroyed a belt of forest SO miles long and 25 miles wide. Over more than two and a half million acres almost every living thing- was killed. Even the fish were afterwards found dead in heaps on the river banks. Five hundred and ninety buildings were burned, and a number of towns, includ-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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