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| | Encyclopedia article on Tillamook Burn [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The Tillamook Burn was a series of forest fires in the Coast Range of Oregon in the United States that destroyed a total area of 355,000 acres (1,400 kmandsup2) of old growth timber, as well as the location of these fires. |
 | | The first was started in the Gales Creek Canyon on August 14, 1933 when a steel cable dragging a fallen Douglas fir rubbing on the dry bark of a wind-fallen snag burst into flame, and burned 240,000 acres (970 kmandsup2) before it was extinguished by seasonal rains on September 5. |
 | | There they stand, millions of ghostly firs, now stark against the sky, which were green as the sea and twice as handsome, until an August day of 1933, when a tiny spark blew into a hurricane of fire that removed all life from 300,000 acres (1,200 kmandsup2) of the finest timber even seen. |
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