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keithbvadu2

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Wed Jan 1, 2020, 11:07 PM Jan 2020

Australia / Bar Harbor fires 1947

Australia / Bar Harbor fires 1947

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=mt+desert+fire

https://maineanencyclopedia.com/mount-desert-fire/

Mount Desert, Fires of 1947

"In less than three hours the wildfire traveled six miles, leaving behind a three-mile wide path of destruction."
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My mother said she remembers the radio reporting the fire as it was happening.

People were on the edge of Bar Harbor being rescued by boats.

In the 60s, we would go down to the island and you could still see the dead, burned trees of the forest.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/australia-bushfires-towns-devastated-and-lives-lost-as-blazes-turn-the-sky-red

Australia’s bushfire crisis has claimed at least two more lives, authorities confirmed on Tuesday, as dozens of fires tore through several towns on the east coast and forced thousands of people to take shelter on beaches.

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Australia / Bar Harbor fires 1947 (Original Post) keithbvadu2 Jan 2020 OP
It was this, or another fire that ran from around Portland to New Hampshire. 3Hotdogs Jan 2020 #1
they used lakes in the peshtigo, wi fire. pansypoo53219 Jan 2020 #2

3Hotdogs

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1. It was this, or another fire that ran from around Portland to New Hampshire.
Wed Jan 1, 2020, 11:37 PM
Jan 2020

My friend's grandparents lost their house and farm near Acton.

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