Mini Pines - The Big Burn
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The Big Burn In August of 1910, three million acres burned in two days. At least eighty-five people died, and nobody can say exactly how many, because most had been hired off barstools without anyone writing down their names. Outside Wallace, Idaho, a forest ranger named Ed Pulaski put forty-some men into an abandoned mine shaft and held the door until his body quit. That’s the part everyone remembers. This one’s about the rest — and about the argument that broke out afterward over what the fire had taught us. We got it wrong, and we’re still paying for it every August.
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