would not have arisen if it was not for the effects of climate change creating these dangerous conditions.
Lots of "human caused climate change" going on 115 years ago. Model T's and horse farts belching out CO2 and methane..
Great Fire of 1910
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Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km2, approximately the size of Connecticut) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British Columbia. [1] The area burned included large parts of the Bitterroot, Cabinet, Clearwater, Coeur d'Alene, Flathead, Kaniksu, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, and St. Joe national forests. [2] The fire burned over two days on the weekend of August 20–21, [3] [4] after strong winds caused numerous smaller fires to combine into a firestorm of unprecedented size. It killed 87 people, [5] mostly firefighters, [6] [7] destroyed numerous manmade structures, including several entire towns, and burned more than three million acres of forest with an estimated billion dollars' worth of timber lost. [2] While the exact cause of the fire is often debated, according to various U.S. Forest Service sources, the primary cause of the Big Burn was a combination of severe drought and a series of lightning storms that ignited hundreds of small fires across the Northern Rockies. However, the ignition sources also include human activity such as railroads, homesteaders, and loggers. [8] It is believed to be the largest, although not the deadliest, forest fire in U.S. history. [9] [10]...
... A number of factors contributed to the destruction caused by the Great Fire of 1910. The wildfire season started early that year because the winter of 1909–1910 and the spring and summer of 1910 were extremely dry, [11] [2] and the summer sufficiently hot to have been described as "like no others." [1] The drought resulted in forests with abundant dry fuel, in an area which had previously experienced dependable autumn and winter moisture... |
