From Disaster to Prosperity: Four Fires that Changed DeadwoodWolff, David A.South Dakota History
In Kansas' early history, fires were common with some areas really of wood and houses made of wood. Every winter snowed for the corncrops waited for getting burnt out. Rain was a seasonal prize, solving the problem firefighters faced a lot too.Teams of matchet horses were used to ...
Word History:Indo-European, the protolanguage from which English and many other languages descend, had pairs of words for some very common things, such as water or fire. Typically, one word in the pair was active, animate, and personified; the other, impersonal and neuter in grammatical gender...
“Fires have gotten faster,” Balch said Wednesday. “The big culprit we're suspecting is awarming climatethat's making iteasier to burn fuelswhen conditions are just right.” Summer fires are bigger usually, but they don't burn nearly as fast. Winter ...
fire historynatural community restorationnortheastern USAPennsylvaniared pinespatial extentLong‐term, ecosystem﹕pecific fire regime information improves natural community restoration and management by providing a basis for scientifically reasoned fire management prescriptions. Historical fire regimes can be ...
"This is a history that is deep," Richard-Craven told CBS News. Many of the families displaced by the Eaton Fire that erupted last week are people she knows personally. Her cousin's house was burned, as was her great-aunt's — where Richard-Craven herself also lived until recently. ...
“It is safe to say that the Palisades fire is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles,” she said. People who are looting will be prosecuted, officials say “This is simply unacceptable,” Los Angeles Cou...
level of destruction, killing at least 28 people, destroying and damaging more than 18,000 buildings valued at more than $275 billion, and leaving a burn zone 2½ times the size of Manhattan. That for decades to come, the disaster would divide our history into a “before” and “after...
bells, incense(熏香),and priests(神甫)in white and purple shared wine from a silver cup as the midsummer sun shone across the old stones.It remained a local festival for a long time in history.In the mid-1980s, vandalism(故意破坏艺术的行为)andunrulypeople imperiled(危害)the festival's fut...
It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What changed that?1 of 9 | Southern California is experiencing it’s most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don’t usually blaze at this time of year, but specific ingredients have come together to...